Saint John the Baptist Biting a Piece of Fruit

ca. 1641

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; third state of three
Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 7 1/16 × 5 5/16 in. (17.9 × 13.5 cm)
Collection no.: 36.35.6
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Stefano Della Bella. Saint John the Baptist Biting a Piece of Fruit. Stefano Della Bella; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Mrs. William Greenough, 1936. 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

Saint John the Baptist Biting a Piece of Fruit — Stefano Della Bella. ca. 1641.

Medium: Etching; third state of three. Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 7 1/16 × 5 5/16 in. (17.9 × 13.5 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Mrs. William Greenough, 1936.

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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