"Les combats de cavalerie, le combat à l'épée et le combat au pistolet"

Lot n° 161
Lieure 1313-1314
Paris, c. 1635. First edition, first state.

"Les Combats de Cavalerie" is a complete set of two etchings: "Le Combat au pistolet" (combat with pistols) and "Le Combat a l'epee" (combat with swords). Usually added to the series "Exercices militaires" (L. 1320-1332). Meaume writes, "C'est dans cette pensee que Fagnani, apres avoir acquis ces planches, y fit ajouter les nos. 13 et 14" (It is thought that Fagnani, after having acquired these plates, numbered them 13 and 14 [after the 12 prints in the "Exercices militaires" series]). However, there is no direct relationship between that series and these two prints, which are perhaps more closely related to the third print in the series "Grandes Miseres de la Guerre," entitled "la Bataille" (the Battle, L. 1341).