Art, literature & history
A fan with a rebus on Love on one side Fortune on the other
ca. 1639
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Etching fashioned to form a fan with fringe around the edges and wooden handle
- Collection no.
- 1970.610
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Stefano Della Bella. A fan with a rebus on Love on one side Fortune on the other. Stefano Della Bella; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Estate of Florance Waterbury, 1970. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
A fan with a rebus on Love on one side Fortune on the other — Stefano Della Bella. ca. 1639.
Medium: Etching fashioned to form a fan with fringe around the edges and wooden handle. Dimensions: .
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Estate of Florance Waterbury, 1970.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.