Plate 4: Head of a Woman in Profile, from 'Second collection of various doodles and etching proofs' (Second recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eauforte)

ca. 1646

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate: 2 1/2 × 3 5/16 in. (6.4 × 8.4 cm) Sheet: 2 5/8 × 3 3/8 in. (6.6 × 8.6 cm)
Collection no.: 67.689.7
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Stefano Della Bella. Plate 4: Head of a Woman in Profile, from 'Second collection of various doodles and etching proofs' (Second recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eauforte). 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

Plate 4: Head of a Woman in Profile, from 'Second collection of various doodles and etching proofs' (Second recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eauforte) — Stefano Della Bella. ca. 1646.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Plate: 2 1/2 × 3 5/16 in. (6.4 × 8.4 cm) Sheet: 2 5/8 × 3 3/8 in. (6.6 × 8.6 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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