Study of a sleeping man in a hat and cloak

Details

Salvator Rosa (Naples 1615-1673)
Study of a sleeping man in a hat and cloak
red chalk
3 ¼ x 4 1/8 in. (8.3 x 10.8 cm)

Provenance

probably Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626-1689) and by descent to
Cardinal Decio Azzolini (1623-1689) and to his nephew
Marchese Pompeo Azzolini (d. 1696).
Livio Odescalchi (1652-1713), Duke of Bracciano, Ceri and Syrmia, and by descent to
Baldassare Erba-Odescalchi (1683-1746).
with Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin 1974, no. B75.
with Margot Gordon, New York, from whom acquired by the late owner.

Literature

M. Mahoney, The Drawings of Salvator Rosa, New York and London 1977, I, no. 20.9, II, ill.

Lot Essay

A record of the artist's taste for subjects from low life, this delicate study of a reclining man wrapped in a cloak belongs to a group of chalk drawings by Rosa which are dated by Michael Mahoney to the 1640s (op. cit., pp. 251-3). This sheet is particularly close to Mahoney's no. 20.10, which shows a similar reclining man executed in the same technique.

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