Three leaves from an album: Two Polish cavalrymen (recto); A figure in the costume of Diana the Huntress (verso); Three horses and a fallen rider and two seated figures; and Figure studies

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Stefano della Bella (Florence 1610-1664)
Three leaves from an album: Two Polish cavalrymen (recto); A figure in the costume of Diana the Huntress (verso); Three horses and a fallen rider and two seated figures; and Figure studies
black chalk (1, verso), pen and brown ink, watermark crossed clubs in a shield over a Maltese cross (1 and 3), three circles with initials below a crown (2)
7 7/8 x 11 in. (195 x 278 mm.) (3)

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Lot Essay

Like lot 56, the first drawing is related to the horseman in the background horseman of De V. 274, one of the set of Cavaliers nègres, polonais et hongrois published anonymously in France around 1651 (De V. 270-80). Both drawings are on paper with the same unusual watermark as a Pole with two women in the Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, Rome (Disegni di Stefano della Bella, 1610-1664, exhib. cat., 1976, no. 40, both the drawing and watermark illustrated).

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