Salvator Rosa (Arenella 1615-1673 Rome)

A young boy holding a skull in a wooded landscape

Details

Salvator Rosa (Arenella 1615-1673 Rome)
A young boy holding a skull in a wooded landscape
with inscription 'Qui fra noi sta il Sig Giovanni Ricciolini/***/quale so che potrebbe.../potrebbe...dopo pra...' (verso)
pen and brown ink, grey wash
9 5/8 x 7 in. (24.5 x 17.7 cm.)

Provenance

M. Polakovits (L. 3561).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 28 January 1998, lot 62, where acquired by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

Similar to a drawing from Rosa's Florentine period, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (see M. Mahoney, The drawings of Salvator Rosa, New York, 1977, I, 25.9; II, ill.). Michael Mahoney confirmed the attribution of the present drawing at the time of the 1998 Sotheby's sale.

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