Lot 72
  • 72

* Salvator Rosa Arenella, Naples 1615 - 1673 Rome

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Description

  • Salvator Rosa
  • two figures, possibly abraham and isaac
  • pen and brown ink and wash

Provenance

Jonathan Richardson, Senior, his mount, shelf numbering and inscription (partly lost), verso: B.14.(?)/h., the 8th n.../Lot 22... (L.2984);
abraded collector's mark, lower left of recto, possibly Sir Joshua Reynolds (L.2364);
sale, London, Sotheby's, 6 March 1973, lot 309;
John and Alice Steiner

Literature

M. Mahoney, The Drawings of Salvator Rosa, New York 1977, vol. I, p. 213, cat. no. 11.5, reproduced vol. II (with incorrect Sotheby's sale lot no. and buyer and medium and measurements) 

Catalogue Note

Mahoney (loc. cit.) dates this drawing to the 1640s.