Landscape with two men on horseback.

Etching, 30 x 26,7 cm, laid paper, signed in plate at lower right margin "SDBella In & F. cum Pri. Reg. christ" (trimmed to the platemark with thread margin, sm. stain at lower right, not affecting the image).

In a landscape, two men on horseback riding from centre towards left, passing through a herd of animals. From the series "Views of Rome and surroudings" (4 pl.), one of Della Bella's most spectacular landscape etchings. There is a preparatory drawing for the print in the Uffizi. Second state (of 3).
Ref. De Vesme/Massar 836.2.
Prov. L. Bongard (stamp on verso, not in Lugt).