A Polish groom, from the back, holding a horse by the bridle

ca. 1662

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate: 3 1/8 × 4 1/8 in. (8 × 10.5 cm) Sheet: 3 11/16 × 5 1/16 in. (9.3 × 12.8 cm)
Collection no.: 1986.1180.634
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Stefano Della Bella. A Polish groom, from the back, holding a horse by the bridle. Stefano Della Bella; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985. 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 Polish groom, from the back, holding a horse by the bridle — Stefano Della Bella. ca. 1662.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Plate: 3 1/8 × 4 1/8 in. (8 × 10.5 cm) Sheet: 3 11/16 × 5 1/16 in. (9.3 × 12.8 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985.

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.

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