Lot 65
65
Salvator Rosa (1615-1673)
Salvator Rosa (1615-1673)

A seated river god

Details
Salvator Rosa (1615-1673)
Rosa, S.
A seated river god
pen and brown ink, brown wash
4.5/8 x 3 in. (118 x 90 mm.)
Provenance
T. Hudson (L. 2432).
Sir Charles Robinson (L. 1433).

Lot Essay

Comparable to the drawing of Christ at Princeton for the Raising of Lazarus datable circa 1662, M. Mahoney, The Drawings of Salvator Rosa, New York and London, 1977, no. 66.11. Possibly a study for Ladon, father of Syrinx in a composition of Pan and Syrinx such as the one in Caldara, M. Mahoney, op. cit., no. 22.