A woman in profile pulling back on a rope tied around the horns of a young bull

ca. 1660

Dating: Approximate
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; second state of two
Dimensions: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 5 7/8 in. (15.8 x 14.9 cm)
Collection no.: 2012.136.805
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Stefano Della Bella. A woman in profile pulling back on a rope tied around the horns of a young bull. Stefano Della Bella; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011. 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 woman in profile pulling back on a rope tied around the horns of a young bull — Stefano Della Bella. ca. 1660.

Medium: Etching; second state of two. Dimensions: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 5 7/8 in. (15.8 x 14.9 cm).

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

Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011.

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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