Herdsman on horseback drives animals, from 'Six animal subjects' (Six sujets d'animaux)

ca. 1646

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed to plate): 5 11/16 × 5 7/16 in. (14.5 × 13.8 cm)
Collection no.: 61.663.329
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Stefano Della Bella. Herdsman on horseback drives animals, from 'Six animal subjects' (Six sujets d'animaux). Stefano Della Bella; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1961. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Herdsman on horseback drives animals, from 'Six animal subjects' (Six sujets d'animaux) — Stefano Della Bella. ca. 1646.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed to plate): 5 11/16 × 5 7/16 in. (14.5 × 13.8 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1961.

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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