STEFANO DELLA BELLA (FLORENCE 1610-1664 FLORENCE)
A sheet of studies of soldiers, cavaliers and a horse (recto); studies of weights and pulleys (verso)
numbered 2(?), 14, 15 and 18, with other illegible inscriptions above certain figures.
pen and brown ink, over black chalk. Watermark: Fragment of a coat of arms.
13.4 x 19.1 cm

PROVENANCE:
From the Kinnaird Castle album of drawings by Stefano della Bella, assembled in the early 19th century, formerly in the collection of Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough, Rutland
By descent to his daughter, Lady Catherine Hamilton Noel, who married the 9th Earl of Southesk, Master of Kinnaird Castle, Brechin, Angus, Scotland
The album dispersed, and the drawings sold individually through the Arcade Gallery, London, in 1946
Il Gabinetto delle Stampe, Milan, in 1976
Private collection, Italy
Private collection, Germany
Bob P. Haboldt & Co., New York, in 1989
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, in 2007
Private collection, New York.

EXHIBITED:
London, Arcade Gallery, Stefano della Bella: Exhibition of 60 of his Drawings, 1946, no.16
Milan, Il Gabinetto delle Stampe, Turin, L’Arte Antica and Rome, Antiquaria Romana, Disegni di Stefano della Bella, 1976-1977, no.40
New York, Bob P. Haboldt & Co., Netherlandish and Italianate Old Master Drawings, 1989-1990, no.6.