Old Master and British Works on Paper

Roman School, 17th Century

Fame crowning a warrior

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Roman School, 17th Century

Fame crowning a warrior

Pen and brown ink over black chalk;

bears old attribution in pen and ink, on the mount: Salvator Rosa

260 by 197 mm

Loyd Collection, sale, London, Sotheby's, 28 November 1945, lot 46 (as Salvator Rosa);
sale, London, Sotheby's, 6 July 1987, lot 28 (as Salvator Rosa)

This lively depiction of Fame crowning a warrior is a preparatory study for a drawing, entitled The Victory of Godfrey de Bouillon, in the Royal Collection, Windsor.¹ The Windsor drawing, catalogued as Roman School, depicts three kings kneeling in surrender to a knight, who is being crowned by Fame. Blunt and Cooke's catalogue note compares it with another drawing in the collection, A Sacrifice,² and suggests they are executed by the same hand, both possibly intended for engravings.

1. A. Blunt and H. L. Cooke, The Roman Drawings of the XVII & XVIII Centuries in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle, London 1960, p. 122, cat. no. 1060, reproduced p.120, fig. 116

2. Ibid., p. 122, cat. no. 1053, reproduced p. 120, fig. 115