Stefano della Bella (1610-1664)
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Stefano della Bella (1610-1664)

A cavalry skirmish: Three horsemen and a dead horse, after Jacques Callot

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Stefano della Bella (1610-1664)
A cavalry skirmish: Three horsemen and a dead horse, after Jacques Callot
pen and brown ink, watermark fragmentary Orfini arms
5 x 7¼ in. (128 x 185 mm.)
Provenance
Purchased from W.H. Schab, New York, 1959, as Callot.

Lot Essay

Derived from the principal figures in Callot's etching of Le combat au pistolet (Lieure 1313), from the series of Les combats de cavalerie, datable to the period 1632-34. Another drawing by Stefano after Callot was sold at Christie's London, 4 July 1995, as part of lot 204.

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