PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA (LOTS 21, 27, 46, 90 AND 98)

Stefano Della Bella (Florence 1610-1664)

A cavalier attended by a page, and a study of a trumpeting angel (recto), A group of cavaliers (verso)

Details

Stefano Della Bella (Florence 1610-1664)
A cavalier attended by a page, and a study of a trumpeting angel (recto), A group of cavaliers (verso)
red chalk, pen and brown ink, fragmentary watermark 'IHS' encircled
4 3/8 x 6 1/8 in. (112 x 156 mm.)

Provenance

Vincent Price; Christie's, New York, 10 January 1996, lot 132A.

Exhibited

Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum, Master Drawings from the Vincent Price Collection, 1987, no. 8, illus.

Lot Essay

The horse and rider on the recto was probably drawn in preparation for Stefano's etching of 1645 (A. De Vesme, with Introduction and Additions by P.D. Massar, Stefano Della Bella: Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1971, I, p. 75, no. 175, II, p. 48, fig. 175). Another related drawing is in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg (De V., op. cit., I, p. 75, no. 175).

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