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Salvator Rosa (Naples 1615-1673)
Lot 16 Property from the Estate of George and Patricia H. Labalme

Salvator Rosa (Naples 1615-1673)

Study of a sleeping man in a hat and cloak

Closed30 January 2018

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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)

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.

Specialist note

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.