Salvator Rosa
The Crucifixion of Polycrates
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Salvator Rosa
(Naples 1615 - 1673 Rome)
The Crucifixion of Polycrates
Pen and brown ink over black chalk;
bears inscription in brown ink on the mount, verso: Sal: Rosa 1614/1673 / A Study for the death of Polycrates / a tyrant of Samos who lived in ye 72d: Olympiad. / He suffered upon the Cross in the 74th: Olympd:
223 by 127 mm; 8¾ by 5 in.
Henry Reveley (1737-1798), Bryny Gwin, North Wales (L.1356);
with Thomas le Claire Kunsthandel, Hamburg, 1998,
where acquired by Diane A. Nixon
New York, The Morgan Library & Museum; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, 2007, no. 35 (entry by Rhoda Eitel-Porter);
Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art; Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Drawn to Excellence: Renaissance to Romantic Drawings from a Private Collection, 2012-2013, no. 43
H. Reveley, Notices Illustrative of the Drawings and Sketches of Some of the Most Distinguished Masters in All the Principal Schools of Design, London 1820, p. 133;
The Reveley Collection of Drawings at Brynygwin, North Wales, Photographed by P. H. Delamotte and T. F. Hardwich, London 1858, IV, pl. 35;
M. Mahoney, The Drawings of Salvator Rosa, New York and London 1977, vol. I, p. 559-60, no. 65.3; vol. II, reproduced fig. 65.3
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