Lot Essay
Mahoney suggests that the second and third drawings may be related to paintings of battles of 1652 and 1645-6 in the Louvre and at Vienna
Details
SALVATOR ROSA* (1615-1673)
Studies of six Heads; A fallen Man; A Man impaled by a Spear; Two Women conversing and a young Man pointing, in profile to the right; A Woman, her right arm raised; A kneeling Woman seen from Behind; and Two Studies of sleeping Men;
pen and brown ink, brown wash (1,3,4 and 7)
3¾ x 3 7/8 in. (94 x 99mm.) and smaller; and two drawings in the style of Salvator Rosa, on the same mounteight on one mount
Studies of six Heads; A fallen Man; A Man impaled by a Spear; Two Women conversing and a young Man pointing, in profile to the right; A Woman, her right arm raised; A kneeling Woman seen from Behind; and Two Studies of sleeping Men;
pen and brown ink, brown wash (1,3,4 and 7)
3¾ x 3 7/8 in. (94 x 99mm.) and smaller; and two drawings in the style of Salvator Rosa, on the same mounteight on one mount
Provenance
C.R. Rudolf (L. 2811b)
Literature
M. Mahoney, The Drawings of Salvator Rosa, New York and London, 1977, nos. 28.7, 40.16, 19.3, 24.19, 29.5, 58.6, 12.8, 12.9, 82.16 and 82.17
Exhibited
Bowes Museum, Neapolitan Baroque and Rococo Paintings, 1962, no. 50