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Stefano Della Bella
1610-1664
Pages in the Retinue of the Polish Ambassador; Two Turkish Horses
1633
Pen and brown ink, over lead or graphite, on laid paper.
6 3/16 x 17 3/8 inches (157 x 441 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 179b
Notes:
A design for della Bella's 6-plate etching of "The Entry of the Ambassador of Poland into Rome." A related drawing for the same section is in the Teyler Museum, inv. M 002; see see van Tuyll, Italian Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Teyler Museum, 2021, no. 34.
Provenance:
Probably Sir J.C. Robinson, Edinburgh and London (Lugt 1433); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
Associated names:
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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