Two sailors with a bale of merchandise

ca. 1662

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; touched proof
Dimensions: Sheet: 3 11/16 × 6 1/2 in. (9.3 × 16.5 cm)
Collection no.: 68.738
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Stefano Della Bella. Two sailors with a bale of merchandise. Stefano Della Bella; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by exchange, 1968. 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

Two sailors with a bale of merchandise — Stefano Della Bella. ca. 1662.

Medium: Etching; touched proof. Dimensions: Sheet: 3 11/16 × 6 1/2 in. (9.3 × 16.5 cm).

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

Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by exchange, 1968.

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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