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Fire, a flotilla on fire in center and to the right, two boats full of people to left, from 'The four elements' (Les quatre Eléments)

Stefano Della Bella · ca. 1645–50

Stefano Della Bella: Florentine, 1610 - 1664

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Fire, a flotilla on fire in center and to the right, two boats full of people to left, from 'The four elements' (Les quatre Eléments)

ca. 1645–50

Etching; first state of three · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Etching; first state of three
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Sheet: 3 1/4 x 7 13/16 in. (8.3 x 19.9 cm) Plate: 3 1/4 x 7 11/16 in. (8.2 x 19.6 cm)
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2012.136.430.4
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Stefano Della Bella. Fire, a flotilla on fire in center and to the right, two boats full of people to left, from 'The four elements' (Les quatre Eléments). 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

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Fire, a flotilla on fire in center and to the right, two boats full of people to left, from 'The four elements' (Les quatre Eléments) — Stefano Della Bella. ca. 1645–50.

Medium: Etching; first state of three. Dimensions: Sheet: 3 1/4 x 7 13/16 in. (8.3 x 19.9 cm) Plate: 3 1/4 x 7 11/16 in. (8.2 x 19.6 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.

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Stefano Della Bella. Fire, a flotilla on fire in center and to the right, two boats full of people to left, from 'The four elements' (Les quatre Eléments). 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.