Stefano della Bella. Another Cannon Convoy, from "Peace and War" / Etching, Paris, c.1638–43.

Artist: Stefano della Bella (Italian, 1610–1664)
Series/portfolio: Divers desseins tant pour la paix que pour la guerre (Peace and War)
Publisher: Israël Henriet (French, 1590–1661)
Place/Date: Paris, c.1638–1643
State: II/II (second state), with letters — imprint added; first state without letters.
Medium: Etching on laid paper
Dimensions: Sheet 105 × 252 mm; border 100 × 249 mm

Inscriptions: Lower left within image: Israel ex. cum privil. Regis (published by Israël [Henriet], with the Royal Privilege).

Description:
Expansive landscape with a military convoy moving left. Foreground left, a cannon is drawn by a horse (its head cropped by the plate edge), attended by two figures. In the middle ground are two dogs and four figures on foot, including a pikeman with a shoulder pike. In the second plane, eight pairs of horses haul another cannon; numerous troops stream along the road toward distant hills beneath a band of parallel sky-hatching.

Catalogue raisonné: de Vesme (1971) 266 I/II (p. 70): "Autre conduite de canons. Sur le devant, à gauche, un canon est traîné par un cheval dont la tête est en dehors de l’estampe. Au milieu, deux chiens et quatre figures à pied, dont un piquier maraudeur portant un cochon de lait. Sur le second plan, huit couples de chevaux traînent un autre canon vers la gauche. Sans nom ni marque du graveur." (Another convoy of cannons. In the foreground, at left, a cannon is drawn by a horse whose head lies outside the print. In the middle, two dogs and four figures on foot, one a marauding pikeman carrying a suckling pig. In the second plane, eight pairs of horses haul another cannon toward the left. Without the name or mark of the engraver). — [LIB-2915.2022] Alexandre de Vesme. Stefano della Bella. Catalogue Raisonné / with Introduction and additions by P. D. Massar (2 volumes). — NY: Collectors Editions, 1971.

Reference: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012.136.433.3: A procession of horsemen and cannons in the middle ground walking to the left, a cannon and two men to the left, from "Peace and War" (Divers desseins tant pour la paix que pour la guerre).

Seller's title: Campo di battaglia