The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 18, 2025
Diogenes and His Cup
1662
(Italian, 1615–1673)
Catalogue raisonné: Bartsch XX.270.5 ; Wallance 103
Location: Not on view
Description
Diogenes was an ancient Greek philosopher who valued poverty and shunned worldly goods, to the extent that he discarded his drinking bowl when he observed a youth drinking water from cupped hands, as depicted here. The print was made by the eccentric Neapolitan artist Salvator Rosa, who rejected conventional patronage in order to focus on themes that interested him. The placement of the narrative within a lush landscape is typical of Rosa’s approach, as is the emphasis on the unconventional principles of his subject, with which he identified.- Langdon, Helen. Salvator Rosa Paint and Performance. London: Reaktion Books, Limited, 2022. .Robertson, Bruce, and Robert Dance. “Joseph Goupy and the Art of the Copy.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 10 (December 1988): 354–375. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 369-370, fig. 15 www.jstor.org
- Baroque Imagery. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 1984-January 6, 1985).Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland, 1969 - 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 4, 1979-January 27, 1980).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1975.51