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| SALVATOR ROSA (Naples 1615 – 1673 Rome)
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| A Peasant Lying on his Back Playing a Pipe
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Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over red chalk;
inscribed on the mount: "S. Rosa"
69 x 162 mm
PROVENANCE:
John W. Catlow
Sale Sotheby’s, London, 1.12.1964, lot 134
Agnews, London
Private collection, Boston
LITERATURE:
Michael Mahoney, The Drawings of Salvator Rosa. New York/London 1977, vol.I, no.2.7 (ill.)
Compared with the considerable number of rapid pen and ink sketches that comprise most of Salvator Rosa’s oeuvre, drawings containing red chalk are relatively few. He employed the medium throughout his career with very little change in style. It is therefore often difficult to date these drawings. For this sheet Mahoney suggests a date in the 1630s when the young artist was working in Naples and Rome and was still very much indebted to Aniello Falcone. The drawing evokes the work of Callot as transmitted to Rosa through Falcone. Another possibility is that the drawing belongs to a group of red chalk studies dating from the 1640s . The fact that Rosa then worked in Florence might have influenced his choice of medium, since red chalk was particularly popular there.
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