Moorish horseman in profile facing right, a black slave holding a fur at right, another horseman to left in the background, from 'Figures on Horseback' (Cavaliers nègres, polonais et hongrois)

ca. 1651

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate: 7 1/2 × 7 1/16 in. (19.1 × 17.9 cm) Sheet: 7 13/16 × 7 5/16 in. (19.8 × 18.5 cm)
Collection no.: 67.688.2
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Stefano Della Bella. Moorish horseman in profile facing right, a black slave holding a fur at right, another horseman to left in the background, from 'Figures on Horseback' (Cavaliers nègres, polonais et hongrois). Stefano Della Bella; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967. 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

Moorish horseman in profile facing right, a black slave holding a fur at right, another horseman to left in the background, from 'Figures on Horseback' (Cavaliers nègres, polonais et hongrois) — Stefano Della Bella. ca. 1651.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Plate: 7 1/2 × 7 1/16 in. (19.1 × 17.9 cm) Sheet: 7 13/16 × 7 5/16 in. (19.8 × 18.5 cm).

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

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967.

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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