Probably a study for the picture Diogenes discarding his Bowl of 1652, a pendant to Democritus of the previous year; both in Copenhagen, L. Salerno, Salvator Rosa, Milan, 1963, fig. 31 and pl. XIII respectively. In the picture Diogenes points to a boy drinking water from his cupped hands, inspiring him to discard his bowl. This study is presumably an early idea for the composition, as the figure of Diogenes, the poses and the placing of the figures differ from the picture. Other drawings related to the picture by Mahoney were in the Odescalchi Collection, and are at Princeton and the British Museum, Mahoney, op. cit., nos. 33.1-6