Live Auction 5860Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolours
Christie’s roundel
Lot 190

Follower of Salvator Rosa

The Tribute Money

Closed11 December 2009

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GBP 2,750

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Follower of Salvator Rosa
The Tribute Money
oil on canvas
18 3/8 x 42½ in. (46.3 x 117.9 cm.)

Lord Northwick, Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, 11 August, 1859, lot 1879 (to Erle-Drax).
J.S.W.S Erle-Drax, Christie's, London, 21 Feb 1910, lot 177, (6 gns. to Glanville).

Specialist note

This composition relates to a lost autograph oil sketch by Rosa, a photograph of which was bequeathed to the Witt Library by Dr. Alfred Scharf in 1965. The present picture is the only known full-scale rendering of the sketch.