From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O’Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings
From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O’Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings
Salvator Rosa
Four Men Moving a Boulder, Two Onlookers
Auction Closed
January 27, 09:35 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Salvator Rosa
Arenella, Naples 1615 - 1673 Rome
Four Men Moving a Boulder, Two Onlookers
Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk;
bears numbering in brown ink, verso: N 33
140 by 111 mm; 5 1/2 by 4 3/8 in
Thomas Lawrence (L.2445);
Charles Fairfax Murray, London;
Victor Winthrop Newman;
with American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, 12 April 1930, no. 180;
Ernest Clifford Peixotto (San Francisco 1869 - 1940 New York),
by descent to his daughter;
with Doyle, New York;
with Mia Weiner, New York, Old Master Drawings, 1990, no. 27,
where acquired 1990
Charles Fairfax Murray, London;
Victor Winthrop Newman;
with American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, 12 April 1930, no. 180;
Ernest Clifford Peixotto (San Francisco 1869 - 1940 New York),
by descent to his daughter;
with Doyle, New York;
with Mia Weiner, New York, Old Master Drawings, 1990, no. 27,
where acquired 1990
M. Mahoney, The Drawings of Salvator Rosa, New York, 1977, vol. I, p. 298, cat. no. 24.20, and reproduced, vol. II
O. G. Boetzkes, Salvator Rosa: Seventeenth-Century Italian Painter, Poet, and Patriot, New York 1960, p. 188
Michael Mahoney dates the present drawing to the middle of the artist's Florentine period, circa 1645.