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A young boy holding a young leopard in his arms, the mother leopard laying below, from 'Ornaments or Grotesques' (Ornamenti o Grottesche)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A young boy holding a young leopard in his arms, the mother leopard laying below, from 'Ornaments or Grotesques' (Ornamenti o Grottesche)

Stefano della Bella

Date
ca. 1650–56
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 7/16 × 2 7/16 in. (16.4 × 6.2 cm)
Object type
Print Ornament & Architecture
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Object number
2012.136.98.6
Credit line
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

Italian, Florence 1610–1664 Florence

Subjects and terms

  • Boys
  • Leopards

The Met object ID 397829. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.