Art, literature & history
Cartouche in the Form of a Drape Suspended from a Cypress Flanked by Skeletons
1647
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- sheet: 15.9 × 12.5 cm (6 1/4 × 4 15/16 in.) plate: 12.5 × 9.2 cm (4 15/16 × 3 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1944.5.138
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Stefano Della Bella. Cartouche in the Form of a Drape Suspended from a Cypress Flanked by Skeletons. Stefano della Bella; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stefano_Della_Bella,_Cartouche_in_the_Form_of_a_Drape_Suspended_from_a_Cypress_Flanked_by_Skeletons,_1647,_NGA_30484.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Cartouche in the Form of a Drape Suspended from a Cypress Flanked by Skeletons — Stefano Della Bella. 1647.
Medium: etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 15.9 × 12.5 cm (6 1/4 × 4 15/16 in.) plate: 12.5 × 9.2 cm (4 15/16 × 3 5/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1944.5.138. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.