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Description: The traditional attribution is convincing. The composition and subject of battles and triumphs were often depicted by Castello. The style of this sheet is very close to a drawing in Windsor Castle which, like one in École des Beauz-Arts, Paris, was probably done for a series of frescoes on Tasso's "Gerusalemme liberata". Our sheet might also be connected with the series of frescoes which Castello did, according to Venturi, for the Palazzo Grimaldi (later Saoli) on the feats of Alexander. Other drawings which represent a similar scene crowded with horses and soldiers in the foreground are in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, and the Uffizi, Florence. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 359]

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