Salvator Rosa (1615-1673)

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Salvator Rosa (1615-1673)

A Young Man with an outstretched Arm in a Landscape

signed 'SRosa' and numbered '3' on the backing; pen and brown ink, brown wash, oval
424 x 334mm.

Provenance

J. Richardson Sen. (L. 2184).
J. Richardson Jun. (L. 2170).
Anon. sale, Christie's, 7 July 1981, lot 94, illustrated (£13,000).

Literature

H.M. Hake, Pond's and Knapton's Imitations of Drawings, The Print Collector's Quarterly, IX, 1922, pp. 345-6.

Exhibited

Naples, Museo di Capodimonte, Civiltà del Seicento a Napoli, 1984, no. 3.71a.
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario and elsewhere, Italian Drawings from the Collection of Duke Roberto Ferretti, 1985-86, no. 39, illustrated.

Engraved

By Arthur Pond, 1735.

Lot Essay

Datable to the 1650s by comparison with a group of sheets mainly of philosophers in landscapes, M. Mahoney, The Drawings by Salvator Rosa, New York, 1977, group 36, no. 36.1-5, illustrated. A copy after the print attributed to Pierre Lélu was sold at Christie's, South Kensington, 7 December 1995, lot 11.

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