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Drawing

ca. 1635-1673 (made)
Artist/Maker
Rosa, Salvator (artist)
Place of origin
Italy (drawn)

Sketch of a female nude standing with her right arm raised, among a group of animals including; an ox, a goat, a hog and an ass; Pen and ink and wash.


Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink and wash
Pen
Drawing
Wash Technique
Brief description
Rosa, Salvator; Sketch of a female nude standing with her right arm raised, among a group of animals including; an ox, a goat, a hog and an ass; Pen and ink and wash; Italian; ca. 1635-1673.
Physical description
Sketch of a female nude standing with her right arm raised, among a group of animals including; an ox, a goat, a hog and an ass; Pen and ink and wash.
Dimensions
  • Height: 220mm (image)
  • Width: 158mm (image)
  • Card height: 250mm
  • Card width: 182mm
6 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches: Dimensions taken from: DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
Style
Neapolitan School
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Collection - Conte Francesco Algarotti and Thomas Thane.
Subjects depicted
Nude
Goat
Ox
Pigs
Ass
Bibliographic references
  • DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
  • Ward-Jackson, Peter, Italian Drawings, Volume Two: 17th-18th Century , London, 1979, p.81 , cat. n. 800, illus. The following is the full text of the entry: ROSA, SALVATOR (1615-1673) 800 A female nude, standing with her right arm raised among a group of animals, including an ox, a goat, a hog and an ass Pen and ink and wash 8 1/8 x 6 1/4 (206 x 158) Dyce 348 PROVENANCE ? Francesco Algarotti (according to the Dyce Catalogue); J. Thane (Lugt 1544); Dyce Bequest, 1869 LITERATURE Dyce Catalogue no. 348 (as by Rosa); I. Moskowitz, Great drawings of all time, New York, 1962, I, pl. 284 (as by Rosa); Mahoney, 57.1; Exhibition Catalogue, Salvator Rosa, London, Hayward Gallery, 1973, no. 68 and pI. 34. (Mahoney wrote the catalogue of the drawings) Mahoney connects the drawing with a painting representing an Allegory of Fortune, in the J. Paul Getty Museum, California. (L. Salerno, Salvator Rosa, Florence, 1963, p. 122, no. 36; pl. 36). In this picture, he says, 'reward is heaped on senseless beasts who trample underfoot attributes of painting and learning.' He considers that the figure in our drawing, with the arc of the zodiac above, possibly signifying Destiny, is an early idea for Fortune in the painting, who distributes her gifts from a cornucopia. The picture, he adds, was exhibited in 1659 at the exhibition of S. Giovanni Decollato. Rosa's enemies criticized it as a satire on papal patronage.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.348

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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