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Death on a battlefield, atop a horse riding towards the left, wearing a hat with many feathers, other figures of Death battling to left and right in the background
ca. 1646
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Etching; third state of four
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 8 7/8 x 11 3/4 in. (22.5 x 29.8 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2012.136.442.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Stefano Della Bella. Death on a battlefield, atop a horse riding towards the left, wearing a hat with many feathers, other figures of Death battling to left and right in the background. 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
Death on a battlefield, atop a horse riding towards the left, wearing a hat with many feathers, other figures of Death battling to left and right in the background — Stefano Della Bella. ca. 1646.
Medium: Etching; third state of four. Dimensions: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 11 3/4 in. (22.5 x 29.8 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.