The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Medici vase, a large vase to right decorated with a representation of the sacrifice of Iphigenia, on a garden terrace, a teenage boy seated to left with a pen and paper with a drawing of the vase, cyprus trees and an obelisk to left in the background, from "Six large views, four of Rome, and two of the Roman countryside" (Six grandes vues, dont quatre de Rome et deux de la Campagne romaine)

Stefano della Bella|Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

1656

Attribution

| Stefano della Bella|Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany | Italian, Florence 1610–1664 Florence|Italian, Florence 1642–1723 Florence

Medium

Etching; second state of two

Physical dimensions

Sheet (trimmed): 11 1/4 × 10 5/8 in. (28.6 × 27 cm)

Credit line

Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917