The Rescue of the Infant Oedipus, 1663

Not on View

Medium

etching with drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 72.7 × 47.8 cm (28 5/8 × 18 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of James A. Bergquist in honor of Faith and Dewayne Perry, Austin, Texas

Catalogue Raisonné

Theodoli 1992, no. 116, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2017.131.1

Artists / Makers

Salvator Rosa (artist) Neapolitan, 1615 - 1673

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in image: Julio Martinello Amico Cariss.mo / Oedipus hic fixis, uerfisque ad sidera plantis / Edocet ad sortem quemlibet ire suam. / Salvator Rosa Inv. pinx. Scul.

Provenance

(James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA); gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Bergquist, James A., Mr.

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: no. 8

1979: Wallace, Richard W. The Etchings of Salvator Rosa. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979: no. 116, ii/ii

1992: Theodoli, Olimpia. Salvator Rosa, 1615-1673: Acqueforti. Bergamo: Alcon, 1992: no. 116, ii/ii