A rocky Italianate landscape with horsemen by a bridge

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After Salvator Rosa
A rocky Italianate landscape with horsemen by a bridge
oil on canvas
99.9 x 125.4 cm.
in a Florentine or Bolognese carved and gilded frame in the 17th century style, 19th century, with openwork scrolling foliate surround and running tongue moulding at the sight edge

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Lot Essay

After the prototype of circa 1640 in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence, inv. no. 306, which is thought possibly to have been painted for Giancarlo de' Medici, Rosa's most important patron (see J. Scott, Salvator Rosa - His Life and Times, 1995, pp. 37-8).

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