Jan 29, 2007 - Sale 2101

Sale 2101 - Lot 43

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
SALVATOR ROSA (FOLLOWER OF)
(Arenella 1615-1673 Rome)
A Soldier in Armor, Holding a Staff and Seated on a Rock in a Grotto.

Oil on panel. 130x95 mm; 5 1/8x3 3/4 inches. Initialed "SR" in oil, lower left recto. Ex-collection Zaleski, according to an inscription in ink on the frame backing. Indiscernible red wax seal on the panel verso.

This is the same figure, in reverse, as Rosa's Figurina etching from circa 1656-57 (see Bartsch 40; Wallace 32).