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STEFANO DELLA BELLA (FLORENCE 1610-1664)
Lot 23 Property from the Estate of Sylvia Paine Constable

STEFANO DELLA BELLA (FLORENCE 1610-1664)

A train of travelers on horseback and in carriages crossing a bridge, with onlookers

Closed1 February 2024

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STEFANO DELLA BELLA (FLORENCE 1610-1664)
A train of travelers on horseback and in carriages crossing a bridge, with onlookers
pen and brown ink, on vellum
7 1⁄8 x 14 1⁄8 in. (18 x 36 cm)

with Colnaghi, London (Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, 1971, no. 20).
John D. Constable (1927-2016), Cambridge MA; then by descent to the present owners.

Specialist note

This large composition in pen and ink on vellum can be compared with a similar sheet with a Battle scene in the Royal Collection at Windsor (RCIN 904555; see A. Blunt, The Drawings of G. B. Castiglione and Stefano della Bella in the Collection of H.lM. the Queen, London, 1954, no. 12, ill.). Recent scholarship has shown how Stefano della Bella had already begun producing large scale drawings on vellum as a teenager (see S. Rinaldi, ‘Early Genres Scenes in Pen on Vellum by Stefano della Bella’, Master Drawings, LX, no. 3, Autumn 2022, pp. 343-354).