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Pietro de Muttoni, called Pietro della Vecchia (Venice 1602/3-1678)
Lot 210

Pietro de Muttoni, called Pietro della Vecchia (Venice 1602/3-1678)

A landscape with a soldier sounding a trumpet and a standard bearer, a military encampment beyond

Closed4 July 2012

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GBP 7,500

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Pietro de Muttoni, called Pietro della Vecchia (Venice 1602/3-1678)
A landscape with a soldier sounding a trumpet and a standard bearer, a military encampment beyond
oil on panel
9 7/8 x 18 3/8 in. (20.5 x 46.7 cm.)

Specialist note

Della Vecchia developed a highly individual style that assimilated influences from Padovanino, under whom he studied, from the contrastingly Caravaggesque Carlo Saraceni, and from the Genoese born Bernardo Strozzi. This small panel in which the principal figures are placed close to the picture plane, in a landscape that rapidly drops away, can be compared with Della Vecchia's Battle between warriors, in a private collection (see B. Aikema, Pietro della Vecchia and the heritage of the Renaissance in Venice, Florence, 1990, p. 144, no. 183, fig. 49).