Diogenes Casting away his Bowl, 1662

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 45.3 x 27.2 cm (17 13/16 x 10 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Theodoli 1992, no. 103, State ii/ii

Accession Number

1983.60.1

Artists / Makers

Salvator Rosa (artist) Neapolitan, 1615 - 1673

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Diogenes Adolescentem manu bibentem / intuitus Scyphum proycit / Salvator Rosa, Inu. Scul.; on verso: (various notes in graphite)

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1979: Wallace, Richard W. The Etchings of Salvator Rosa. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.

1992: Theodoli, Olimpia. Salvator Rosa, 1615-1673: Acqueforti. Bergamo: Alcon, 1992.