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Description: Warrior on Foot Accompanied by Horseman. Laid down. Inscribed at lower left in pen and brown ink: Cingaro Napolitano. Numbered at lower right 17. (Sparre) and 11 (struck out).

Sirén noticed the affinity with Mantegna's style of drawing with its characteristic hatching and angular, classical type of figure. He published the sheet as by an artist in Mantegna's circle, placing it in Pauda around 1475. van Marle shared his opinion, while Tancred Borenius suggested Jacopo Montagnana. Tietze is not inclined to commit himself, describing earlier attempts as "guesswork". Fiocco would like to claim the drawing for Girolamo Mocetto but a confrontation with a sheet with satyrs in the Venice Accademia, likewise attributed to this artist, indicates that our sheet at all events is not by the same hand as that.

Ruggeri suggests Domenico Morone, referring to the horsemen in the large painting of The Fight between the Gonzagas and the Buonaccolsi, signed and dated 1494, formerly in the Crespi Collection and now at Palazzo Ducale, Mantua. He also considers the style to be close to Marco Zoppo. 

It is perhaps still more interesting to compare the drawing with two panels, Scenes at a tournament, in the National Gallery, London, obviously by the same hand. These pictures are fairly small, c. 45.5 x 49 cm each, and may have come from a cassone. They have the same pattern of movement and form in figures and horses. 

But as we know of no drawing that is definitely by Morone the attribution must remain hypothetical, even though it is the most plausible to date. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 85]

Foto: Cecilia Heisser/Nationalmuseum 2018

Titel (sv): Krigare till fots tillsammans med ryttare
Titel (en): Warrior on Foot Accompanied by Horseman
Titel i inventariet (sv): Soldat med lans och sköld går framför en riddare till häst

Title (sv): Krigare till fots tillsammans med ryttare
Title (en): Warrior on Foot Accompanied by Horseman
Inventory title (sv): Soldat med lans och sköld går framför en riddare till häst