Italian School, 16th Century

A design for a frieze of an equestrian battle, with fallen soldiers

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Italian School, 16th Century
A design for a frieze of an equestrian battle, with fallen soldiers
pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white on blue (faded) paper
8 5/8 x 10¾ in. (21.9 x 27.5 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Steinberg considered an attribution to Polidoro da Caravaggio, but this composition does not relate to any known one by Polidoro. He also considered Giuseppe Porta, il Salviati but Janos Scholz (inscription on the mount) thought it was probably Lombard, circa 1530.

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