← Old Master Prints
← Old Master Prints
DELLA BELLA, Stefano (1610–1664)
Diverses exercices de cavalerie, the complete set of 19 plates including title
- Medium
- Etchings, ca. 1642/45
- Catalogue reference
- De Vesme 227-245, no. 243 in the first state of two, the others in De Vesme’s only state. T. Ortolani, in his supplement to the above (1996), notes that A. Forlani Tempesta cites the existence in a private Florentine collection of a third state in which 12 of the plates have a number added in the lower right (Paragone, 1973, no. 279).
- Condition
- Fine to very fine impressions. Most trimmed on the platemarks, five with small margins.
- Size
- 83–89 × 65–71mm
- Additional notes
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Massar proposes that the series may have been issued to mark the occasion when the seven-year-old Louis XIV began to take riding lessons, therefore they would date to 1645.
- Price
- The set $3,500 USD