Rocky Landscape with a Rustic House

Salvator Rosa

Associated Names
Salvator Rosa

Artist, Neapolitan, 1615 - 1673

The image shows a landscape with hills and vegetation. A small house is visible in the middle-right area. The artwork features detailed ink drawings with fluid lines and crosshatching for texture. The color palette is monochromatic, with sepia tones on a creamy paper background. Shrubbery and rocks are depicted in the foreground, leading to hills in the distance where the house is nestled among trees. The sky is clear above the trees and house.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 23.5 x 42.5 cm (9 1/4 x 16 3/4 in.)
    support: 25.8 x 44.4 cm (10 3/16 x 17 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1983.55.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ferruccio Asta (Lugt Supp.116a)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1983

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., September 1983.

Bibliography

n.d.

  • Colnaghi, London: 6/17-7/10/82, 42.

1977

  • Mahoney 1977, 21.8.

Wikidata ID

Q64630226

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