Battle Scene
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Dimensionsh x w: Mått 9,6 x 15 cm
Inventory numberNMH 591/1863
AcqusitionTransferred 1866 from Kongl. Museum (Carl Gustaf Tessin)
Other titlesTitle (sv): Bataljscen Title (en): Battle Scene Inventory title (sv): Bataljstycke
DescriptionDescription: Battle Scene. Laid down. Numbered in pen and brown ink at lower left: 41 (Bellori), at lower right: 504 (Sparre). The Crozat sale, 1741, included four lots (nos. 289-92) of drawings by Giacomo Cortese. Mariette notes in his commentary: "Les petits Desseins cidessus formoient un Livret dans lequel le Bouurguignon disposoit les premieres pensées de ses table- aux..; Le Bellori l'acheta des Pères Jésuites du College Romain, après la mort de l'Auteur, soixante et dix écus Romains." The lots contained seventytwo drawings. Tessin bought six from lot 290. Two of these can be identified for sure in the Nationalmuseum collection. None of the other four has been traced either in the list of 1739/42 or in the museum's collection. E.L. Holt has identified 34 sheets from the Bellori volume in the British Museum, another thirteen sheets are in the Louvre, and one in Musée des Beaux Arts in Rouen. The Bellori drawings form a homogeneous group of rather rough, rapidly executed sketches, very few of which have been equated with corresponding paintings. They may have served Courtois as a source of reference to be used in creating compositions for his paintings. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 660]
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Geographical origin
TechniqueDrawing, Wash drawing