Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630)

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Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630)

A Battle Scene

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, on blue paper
363 x 525mm.
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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

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