Plate 10: Five Heads of Children, from "Collection of various doodles and etching proofs" (Recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eauforte)

ca. 1646

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 1 1/16 × 4 5/8 in. (2.7 × 11.7 cm)
Collection no.: 1986.1180.617
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Stefano Della Bella. Plate 10: Five Heads of Children, from "Collection of various doodles and etching proofs" (Recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eauforte). 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

Plate 10: Five Heads of Children, from "Collection of various doodles and etching proofs" (Recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eauforte) — Stefano Della Bella. ca. 1646.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 1 1/16 × 4 5/8 in. (2.7 × 11.7 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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