Diverses exercices de cavalerie, a set of 19

Artwork details

Artist

Stefano Della Bella

Title

Diverses exercices de cavalerie, a set of 19

Description

Diverses exercices de cavalerie, the set of 19 plates including title

Etchings, ca. 1642/45. De Vesme 227-245, no. 243 in the first state of two, the others in De Vesme’s only state. T. Ortolani, in his supplement to the above (1996), notes that A. Forlani Tempesta cites the existence in a private Florentine collection of a third state in which 12 of the plates have a number added in the lower right (Paragone, 1973, no. 279).

Fine to very fine impressions. Most trimmed on the platemarks, five with small margins. 83-89 x 65-71mm.

Massar proposes that the series may have been issued to mark the occasion when the seven-year-old Louis XIV began to take riding lessons, therefore they would date to 1645.

Date

1645

Medium

Etching

Edition

Unknown

Signature

Unsigned

Sheet

83-89 x 65-71 cm

Status

Available

Price

$3,500.00