Della Bella was the son of a sculptor. He learnt etching with Remigio Cantagallina. First employed by the Medici, he spent much time in Rome from 1633 and in 1639 moved to Paris, in the train of his patron the Florentine ambassador to Louis XIII; and stayed to work for French publishers. In the political climate of anti-Italian sentiments in the Fronde, della Bella returned to Florence. This print before any publisher’s address, is trimmed to the borderlines on two sides, to the plate at the foot and just into the image at the top, and edge-mounted. It depicts The Holy Sacrament, covered by a canopy, being carried in procession, followed by the young King Louis XIV and his mother Anne of Austria.