Salvator Rosa (Naples 1615-1673)
A cloaked man
with number '13' (on the old mount)
red chalk, pen and brown ink, light brown and red wash, watermark eagle in a circle
4 ½ x 3 ½ in. (11.5 x 8.9 cm)
Salvator Rosa (Naples 1615-1673)
A cloaked man
with number '13' (on the old mount)
red chalk, pen and brown ink, light brown and red wash, watermark eagle in a circle
4 ½ x 3 ½ in. (11.5 x 8.9 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. B13. Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 8 February 2005, lot 83.
M. Mahoney, The Drawings of SalvatorRosa, New York and London 1977, I, no. 20.21, II, ill.
专家说明
This study of a cloaked man belongs to a group of chalk drawings by Rosa which are dated by Michael Mahoney to the 1640s (op. cit., pp. 251-3).