The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 28, 2023

Figures by a Rocky Pool

1660/1673

Salvator Rosa

(Italian, 1615–1673)

Italy, 17th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and gray and brown wash; traces of framing lines in brown ink

Support: Beige(1) laid paper

Sheet: 18.3 x 12.5 cm (7 3/16 x 4 15/16 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1975.16

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

[by artist?], lower right, in brown ink: Salvator ; upper center, in brown ink (over gray ink): 18 ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT (now removed), lower left and lower center, in graphite: from the Collection of E. Desperet (1804-1865) of Paris ; lower center, in graphite: Rosa ; lower center, in graphite: Salvator Rosa / 1614-1673

Provenance
E. Desperet, Paris (Lugt 721, lower right, in black ink). [Paul Drey Gallery, New York] (label on old photo)
Exhibition history

CMA, Concept, Dogma, and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650 (Aug. 27-Oct. 20, 1991).

CMA, Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection (Dec. 15, 1986-Mar. 1, 1987).

CMA, Baroque Imagery (Nov. 6, 1984-Jan. 6, 1985), no. 41, illus.

CMA, Visions of Landscape: East and West (Feb. 17-Mar. 21, 1982).

CMA, "Year in review for 1975" (Feb. 3-Mar. 7, 1976), cma Bulletin 63 (1976), p. 69 no. 109, illus. p. 38 (along with 75.17).

The Cleveland Museum of Art (2/15/2015 - 6/14/2015); "The Novel and the Bizarre: Salvator Rosa's Scenes of Witchcraft"

Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

Baroque Imagery. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 1984-January 6, 1985).

Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987).

Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 20, 1991).

The Novel and the Bizarre: Salvator Rosa's Scenes of Witchcraft. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 15-June 14, 2015).

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