Name: Salvator Rosa (Naples 1615-1673)
Brand: A cloaked man
Price: 1200.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

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
4¹⁄₂ x 3¹⁄₂ 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 Salvator Rosa, New York and London 1977, I, no. 20.21, II, ill.

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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).