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TITLE:
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A Young Cavalier Wearing a Plumed Hat
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CATEGORY:
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Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)
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MATERIALS:
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Pen and brown ink and watercolour over traces of lead pencil
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MARKINGS:
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Fragment on mount bearing inscription, Stefano della Bella
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SIZE:
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h: 14.4 x w: 12.3 cm / h: 5.7 x w: 4.8 in
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STYLE:
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Old Masters
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PRICE*:
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DESCRIPTION:
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This striking figure closely resembles the elegantly attired members of the French ‘Academies’ who appear in Stefano’s engraving The Entry of the Polish Embassy into Paris(1) , as well as those in the series of equestrian engravings, Diverses Exercices de Cavalierie Dedie a Monsieur Destissac Enfant d’Honneur du Roy(2), both of which are datable to 1645. There are equally two similar drawings of cavalieri in the City Art Gallery, Plymouth (3) . Other examples of plumed head-dresses by the artist are in the Royal Collection at Windsor and in the British Museum, London (4).
1) Alexandre de Vesme and Phyllis Dearborn Massar, Stefano della Bella: Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1971, nos. 44-49, for which the drawings are in the British Museum (Inv. nos. 1895-6-17-387 to 400).
2) De Vesme & Massar, op. cit., nos. 227-245.
3) Old Master Drawings etc. from the Collection of Charles Rogers and the William Cotton Bequest, Sotheby’s, London, August 1979, nos. 46 and 47, illus.
4) Inv. nos. 4650, 4666, 4685, and 4689 (Royal Collection) and inv no. 1887-5-2-3 (British Museum).
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PROVENANCE:
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Edward Croft Murray; thence by descent
Smithson & Williams, London
Morton Morris & Co., London
Sale: New York, Sotheby’s, 12 January, 1994, lot 173, illus.
Thomas Williams Fine Art, London
Charles Ryskamp, New York
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EXHIBITION HISTORY:
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Old Master Drawings, Recent Acquisitions, Smithson & Williams, London, June-July, 1989 (illus. front cover)
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