Hungarian Cavalier

Stefano Della Bella

Associated Names
Stefano Della Bella

Artist, Florentine, 1610 - 1664

The image is an etching of a person mounted on a horse. The person is sitting on the horse with a focused expression. They wear a large hat and layered clothing. The horse is detailed, showing muscles and decorative elements. In the background, there are more figures on horseback and some standing individuals. The distance contains faint outlines suggestive of a landscape and the sky has sparse cloud formations. The etching is enclosed in an oval border and the artist signed as "B. Della" at the bottom.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Accession Number

    1972.66.11

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    De Vesme/Massar 1971, no. 273

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London); purchased by NGA, 1972.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1906

  • Vesme, Alexandre de (Baudi di Vesme, Alessandro). Le peintre-graveur italien; ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906: no.273.

1971

  • De Vesme, Alexandre, Phyllis Dearborn Massar.Stefano Della Bella. New York, 1971: no.273.

2001

  • Talbierska, Jolanta.AKWAFORTY ZE ZBIOROW GABINETU RYCIN BIBLIOTEKI UNIWERSYTECKIEJ W WARSZAWIE / Etchings from the Collection of the Print Room of the Warsaw University Library. Warsaw, 2001: 181, no.30.

Wikidata ID

Q65577762

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