Art, literature & historyPlate Twelve from Drawings of Several Movements by Soldiers
1644
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 5.5 × 12.8 cm (2 3/16 × 5 1/16 in.); Plate: 6.1 × 13 cm (2 7/16 × 5 1/8 in.); Sheet: 6.9 × 13.7 cm (2 3/4 × 5 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1970.145
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Plate Twelve from Drawings of Several Movements by Soldiers — Stefano Della Bella. 1644.
Medium: Etching on ivory laid paper. Dimensions: Image: 5.5 × 12.8 cm (2 3/16 × 5 1/16 in.); Plate: 6.1 × 13 cm (2 7/16 × 5 1/8 in.); Sheet: 6.9 × 13.7 cm (2 3/4 × 5 7/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
For the subject of this work, della Bella chose the movements of soldiers toward and through a town, which is recognizable as Arras. He dedicated the work to Henry du Plesseys, Count of Roche-Guyon, whose coat of arms appears in the first and second plates.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.