Lot Essay
A preparatory drawing, datable to the first half of the 1660s, is in the British Museum (M. Mahoney, The Drawings of Salvator Rosa, New York and London, 1977, I, p. 633, no. 72.2; II, fig. 72.2).
The Earl of Jersey's collection at Osterley Park contained other works by Rosa; among these were a Landscape with Banditi now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, a Tobias and the Angel in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, a Landscape with Peasants in the Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York (L. Salerno, Salvator Rosa, Milan, 1963, pp. 124-5 and p. 133, nos. 43, 45 and 76), and a Christ tempted by Satan of similar size and date to the present picture in a private collection, New York (J.T. Spike, catalogue of the exhibition, Italian Baroque Paintings from New York Private Collections, The Art Museum, Princeton University, 27 April-7 Sept. 1980, p. 104, no. 41, illustrated).
The Earl of Jersey's collection at Osterley Park contained other works by Rosa; among these were a Landscape with Banditi now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, a Tobias and the Angel in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, a Landscape with Peasants in the Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York (L. Salerno, Salvator Rosa, Milan, 1963, pp. 124-5 and p. 133, nos. 43, 45 and 76), and a Christ tempted by Satan of similar size and date to the present picture in a private collection, New York (J.T. Spike, catalogue of the exhibition, Italian Baroque Paintings from New York Private Collections, The Art Museum, Princeton University, 27 April-7 Sept. 1980, p. 104, no. 41, illustrated).