A duel on horseback between Alvar Sánchez and Gonzalo Gomez, watched by Doña Lambra: Alvar Sánchez is killed. Etching by A. Tempesta after O. Vaenius.

  • Veen, Otto van, 1556-1629.
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A duel on horseback between Alvar Sánchez and Gonzalo Gomez, watched by Doña Lambra: Alvar Sánchez is killed. Etching by A. Tempesta after O. Vaenius. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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An episode in the medieval romance, Cantar (Leyenda, Historia) de los siete infantes de Lara. The other six sons of Lara are shown on horseback on the right. Personifications of madness and vengeance fly above the combatants, urging them on. In the distance Doña Lambra watches from her bedroom window

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1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 14.8 x 20.3 cm

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Despues de aver tirado tan fuertemente Gonzalo Gomes, Alvar Sanchez entre algunas ... Lettering continues in Spanish and Latin Bears number: 7

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1818, vol. XVII, p. 182, nos. 1388-1427 ("L'histoire des sept enfans de Lara. Suite de quarante estampes gravées d'après des desseins d'Otton van Veen. Largeur : 7 p. 6 lign. Hauteur : 5 p. 6 lign. La marge d'en bas : 1 p. 4 lign. Ces pièces sont numérotées au milieu de la marge d'en bas depuis 1 à 40. Chaque numéro est renfermé dans un petit cercle. Les figures sont marquées de numéro qui se rapportent à l'explication gravée dans la marge d'en bas, à gauche en langue Espagnole, à droite en Latin.")

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Wellcome Collection 42729i

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