Man with Staff Seen from Behind
artist
Salvatore Rosa
(Naples, 1615 - 1673, Rome)
Datemid 17th century
Place MadeItaly, Europe
MediumEtching on laid paper mounted on board
Dimensions14.3 x 8.9 cm (5 5/8 x 3 1/2 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number1.4.o.46
eMuseum ID727850
EmbARK ObjectID13980
Original Number3.4.o.141
TMS Source ID2815
Last Updated10/3/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesAdam von Bartsch et al. The Illustrated Bartsch: Vol. 45, Italian Masters of the Seventeenth Century (New York: Abaris, 1981-1990), no. 69 (288). (described as "Un homme debout, vu par le dos. Il a le genou gauche sur une pierre, et tient un baton de la main droite. Le chiffre est a la gauche d'en bas.")
MarksNotesPrinted in the plate in ink (recto, lower left): [monogram]: SR
Inscribed in blue ink (verso, lower right corner): 5/23/77
Inscribed in blue ink (verso, lower right corner): 5/23/77
ProvenanceNotesFound by the American singer Charles J. Dyer in a shop near the Palazzo Rusticucci, Trastevere, Rome. Described by Dyer in a letter as an early etching by Rosa, “as originally mounted by him”. Sent by Dyer with an Easter card to Isabella Stewart Gardner, between 1920 and 1924.
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