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Landscape with Horsemen

1646

Stefano Della Bella

Associated Names

Stefano Della Bella

Artist, Florentine, 1610 - 1664

The image shows a scene with two figures on horseback, one looking towards a large, textured stone structure. In the background, there are trees leaning slightly to the side. The horizon features the stone structure and trees, with additional foliage and a faint outline of clouds. The artwork is created using an etching technique with precise, linear strokes defining forms and textures in black ink on cream paper.

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Artwork overview

Medium

etching
Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Sara L. Lepman
Accession Number

1981.59.34
Catalogue Raisonné

De Vesme/Massar 1971, no. 477

Artwork history & notes

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.477.

1971

De Vesme, Alexandre, Phyllis Dearborn Massar.Stefano Della Bella. New York, 1971: no.477.

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: 140, no.33.

Wikidata ID

Q74037524

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