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ANTONIO TEMPESTA (FLORENCE 1555-1630 ROME)
A battle scene
inscribed ‘Anto.Tempesta’
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, fragmentary watermark star in a
circle
6º x 8 in. (15.9 x 22 cm)
$3,000-4,000
PROVENANCE:
Sir Charles Greville (1763-1832), England (L. 549); by descent to
George Guy, Earl of Warwick (1818-1893), Warwick (L. 2600).
The Karen Dean Bunting Trust, Kansas City; Sotheby’s, New York, 20 January
1982, lot 42.
The Collection of Khalil Rizk, New York.
ENGRAVED:
This composition of horsemen in battle can be compared to similar drawings
at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York (inv. 1993.98), and in the
British Museum (inv. 1946,0713.535; see N. Turner, Florentine drawings of the
Sixteenth Century, London, 1987, no. 55, ill.).
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