Live Auction 5688Old Master & Early British Drawings and Watercolours
Salvator Rosa (Arenella, Naples 1615-1673 Rome)
Lot 28

Salvator Rosa (Arenella, Naples 1615-1673 Rome)

Three men in a landscape

Closed3 July 2012

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GBP 7,500

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Salvator Rosa (Arenella, Naples 1615-1673 Rome)
Three men in a landscape
pen and brown ink, brown wash
1¾ x 4¼ in. (4.2 x 10.5 cm.)

The Marquis of Lansdowne, Meikleour; and by descent.

Specialist note

Mahoney (op. cit.) dates the drawing to the late 1630s or early 1640s, suggesting that the figures may have been intended as staffage for Rosa's paintings.