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Plate 7: a triton in the water, facing left, holding up an eel in his right hand and two other eels underwater in his left hand, from 'Second collection of various doodles and etching proofs' (Second recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eauforte)
ca. 1646
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 2 1/2 x 2 11/16 in. (6.3 x 6.9 cm) Plate: 2 3/8 x 2 5/8 in. (6.1 x 6.7 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2012.136.792.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Stefano Della Bella. Plate 7: a triton in the water, facing left, holding up an eel in his right hand and two other eels underwater in his left hand, from 'Second collection of various doodles and etching proofs' (Second recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eauforte). 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
Plate 7: a triton in the water, facing left, holding up an eel in his right hand and two other eels underwater in his left hand, from 'Second collection of various doodles and etching proofs' (Second recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eauforte) — Stefano Della Bella. ca. 1646.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet: 2 1/2 x 2 11/16 in. (6.3 x 6.9 cm) Plate: 2 3/8 x 2 5/8 in. (6.1 x 6.7 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.