ATTRIBUTED TO ANTONIO TEMPESTA | A CAVALRY BATTLE BEFORE THE WALLS OF A CITY

This composition stylistically connects to a drawing by Tempesta depicting A Battle between Christian and Turkish Armies before the Walls of a City that sold at Christie's in 1994.¹ Though there does not seem to be a print after this work, the numerous prints that exist of other battle scenes by Tempesta attest to their popularity through the centuries.

We are grateful to Dr. Massimo Francucci for endorsing the attribution on the basis of photographs and for his assistance with the cataloguing of the present lot.

^1. Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, on light brown paper, 355 by 502 mm. See anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 5 July 1994, lot 25.