Stefano della Bella (Florence 1610-1664) A battle scene with soldiers standing by cannons, with cavalry and infantry beyond pen and brown ink 2½ x 4½ in. (6.3 x 11.4 cm.)
Stefano della Bella (Florence 1610-1664) A battle scene with soldiers standing by cannons, with cavalry and infantry beyond pen and brown ink 2½ x 4½ in. (6.3 x 11.4 cm.)
Anonymous sale; Auktionshaus Stuker, Bern, 21 November 2014, lot 78.
Similar military scenes with cannons and cannoneers in the foreground can be found in a number of Della Bella’s etchings. This sheet, which does not seem to have been used for a print, is particularly close in composition to one etching from Dessins de quelques conduites de troupes (A. de Vesme and P. D. Massar, Stefano della Bella. Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1971, I, no. 255, II, p. 67, ill.) and to four etchings from Varii capricci militari (ibid., I, nos. 259, 260, 262-3, II, pp. 68-9, ill.).
