Salvator Rosa (1615-1673)

A figure lying by a tree below a cliff

Details

Salvator Rosa (1615-1673)
A figure lying by a tree below a cliff
signed with initials 'S.R.', and with inscription 'S.R.:'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidized), watermark Barberini arms
391 x 258 mm.

Provenance

Sante Varni, Genoa.
An unidentified collector's mark (L. 619a).
Professor J. Isaacs; Sotheby's London, 12 March 1964, lot 140.
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 19 April 1988, lot 55.

Literature

M. Mahoney, The Drawings of Salvator Rosa, New York, 1977, p. 277, no. 22.4.

Lot Essay

Mahoney dates this sheet to the early 1640s, and notes that the sheet bears a form of monogram unique in the artist's work. The theme of a man resting under a tree and becoming lost in Nature can be found in another drawing at the British Museum drawn on vellum, M. Mahoney, op. cit., no. 23. 1.
The attribution to this sheet and the following three lots was confirmed by Michael Mahoney during a visit to the owner's collection 26 April 1999.

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