Lot 4: Ferraù Fenzoni (Faenza 1562-1645)

A cavalry battle
with inscription 'H'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark encircled pilgrim (?), losses, on a 19th Century Italian mount with attribution 'Della Scuola Fiaminga Antica'
10 3/8 x 15 3/4 in. (263 x 402 mm.)

N. Schwed, 'New drawings by Ferraù Fenzoni', Master Drawings, XXXVIII (2000), fig. 27, p. 36 and note 47.

Dr. C.R. Rudolf (L. 2811b), by whom presented to the parents of the present owner.

Nicolas Schwed places this drawing in Fenzoni's late period and associates it with three others, all in private collections, which show the same unidentified composition depicting a young boy on horseback at the centre of a fierce battle (N. Schwed, op. cit., pp. 44-49).

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