Lot Essay
Mahoney (op. cit.) suggests that the present work dates from the late 1630s or early 1640s, and that the figures may have been intended as staffage for Rosa's landscape paintings.
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A group of Oriental figures, with a man pulling another up from below by the shoulders
Details
Salvator Rosa (Arenella, Naples 1615-1673 Rome)
A group of Oriental figures, with a man pulling another up from below by the shoulders
red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
4¼ x 2½ in. (10.5 x 6.4 cm.)
A group of Oriental figures, with a man pulling another up from below by the shoulders
red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
4¼ x 2½ in. (10.5 x 6.4 cm.)
Provenance
The Marquis of Lansdowne, Meikleour; and by descent.
Literature
M. Mahoney, The Drawings of Salvator Rosa, New York and London, 1977, no. 8.5.
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