This drawing is related to Crates casting Money into the Sea, in an English private collection (fig. 1), J. Scott, Salvator Rosa, His Life and Times, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 57. The picture was, according to Filippo Baldinucci in 1681, commissioned by the Marchese Carlo Gerini as a pair to that of Diogenes, The Philosopher's Grove, now in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence. Both pictures date from Rosa's sojourn in Florence circa 1640. A drawing for The Philosopher's Grove is in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (M. Mahoney, The Drawings of Salvator Rosa, London, 1977, no. 26.1, illustrated) and another is included in the Ferretti collection as lot 80 of this sale. Crates, a disciple of Diogenes from Boetia, sold his estates and distributed the proceeds to the citizens. Salvator Rosa mentioned Crates in his ode Della Ricchezze inspired by the ancient cynic philosophers, M. Mahoney, op. cit., p. 318.