Lot Essay
This drawing is comparable in style, technique and subject with one in the Uffizi, no. 365P. Anthony Blunt suggested a date of 1650, after the artist had returned from Paris to Florence.
Details
Stefano della Bella (1610-1664)
Horsemen in a Storm
numbered '12'; black chalk, pen and brown ink, gray wash, inscribed hexagon
8 x 11in. (203 x 280mm.)
Horsemen in a Storm
numbered '12'; black chalk, pen and brown ink, gray wash, inscribed hexagon
8 x 11in. (203 x 280mm.)
Provenance
W. Mayor (L. 2799).
Literature
A Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings by the Old Masters formed by the late W. Mayor, Esq., of Bayswater, London, 1875, no. 165.
Exhibited
Institute of Fine Arts, 1961.
Vassar College, 1963, no. 24.
New York, Metropolitan Museum, Florentine Baroque Art from American Collections, 1969, no. 52.
Vassar College, 1963, no. 24.
New York, Metropolitan Museum, Florentine Baroque Art from American Collections, 1969, no. 52.