Circle of Salvator Rosa

Acquired in Italy by Joseph Allen Smith (1769-1828), circa 1793-1796 (as Rosa);

By whom donated to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1812 (inv. no. C 330);

By whom deaccessioned ("Property from an East Coast Educational Institution"), New York, Christie's, 11 January 1989, lot 78 (as Rosa);

Where acquired by the present collector.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Young America: A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 11 December 1975 - 22 February 1976;

Wellesley College, Jewett Arts Center, Salvator Rosa in America, 20 April - 5 June 1979, no. 16 (lent by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts);

Charleston, Gibbes Museum of Art, In Pursuit of Refinement: Charlestonians Abroad, 1740-1860, 9 April - 3 July 1999, no. 25 (lent from a private collection).

Catalogue of the Paintings, Statuary in Marble, Casts in Plaster, Books, Prints, Etc., The Property of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Philadelphia 1864, p. 17, cat. no. 145 (as Rosa);

Catalogue of the Permanent Collection, With an Appendix of Works Deposited, Philadelphia 1886, p. 20, cat. no. A 2 (as Rosa);

E.H. Coates, The Academy of the Fine Arts and its Future: Address Delivered Before the Art Club of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 1890, p. 14 (as Rosa);

Descriptive Catalogue of the Permanent Collections of Works of Art on Exhibition in the Galleries, Philadelphia 1904, p. 61, cat. no. C 330 (as Rosa);

Cumulative Record of Exhibition Catalogues, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, A.W. Rutledge (ed.), Philadelphia 1955;

E.P. Richardson, "Allen Smith, Collector, and Benefactor," in American Art Journal 1, no. 2 (Autumn 1969), pp. 15-16, reproduced fig. 6 (as Rosa?);

C.C. Sellers, Charles Willson Peale with Patron and Populace, Philadelphia 1969, p. 13, under cat. no. S15 (as Attributed to Rosa);

P.C.F. Mandel, Selection VII: American Paintings from the Museum's Collection, c. 1800-1930, exhibition catalogue, Providence 1977, pp. 19-21, under cat. no. 1 (as Rosa);

R.W. Wallace, Salvator Rosa in America, exhibition catalogue, Wellesley 1979, p. 35, cat. no. 16, reproduced (as Imitator of Rosa);

E.C. Parry, "Thomas Cole's Early Drawings: In Search of a Signature Style," in Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 66, no. 1 (1990), p. 12 (as Attributed to Rosa);

R.A. McNeal, "Joseph Allen Smith, American Grand Tourist," in International Journal of the Classical Tradition 4, no. 41 (Summer 1997), p. 73 (as Rosa?);

M.D. McInnis, in In Pursuit of Refinement: Charlestonians Abroad, 1740-1860, exhibition catalogue, M.D. McInnis (ed.), Columbia 1999, p. 144, cat. no. 25, reproduced (as Rosa);

T.J. Barringer and J. Raab, in Picturesque and the Sublime: Thomas Cole's Trans-Atlantic Inheritance, exhibition catalogue, T.J. Barringer, G. Forrester, and J. Raab (eds.), New Haven 2018, pp. 157 note 43; 164 note 5 (as Imitator of Rosa).