Lot Essay
The mounted figure in the foreground throwing a spear appears in one of Tempesta's illustrations of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata (Illustrated Bartsch XXXVII, no. 1226). Another drawing on blue paper of comparable size and technique is in the Louvre, F. Viatte, Dessins Toscans XVIe - XVIIIe Siècles, Paris, 1988, I, no. 453, illustrated