Alexander in the Studio of Apelles, c. 1662

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 45.5 x 27.5 cm (17 15/16 x 10 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Theodoli 1992, no. 114, State ii/iii

Accession Number

1985.63.1

Artists / Makers

Salvator Rosa (artist) Neapolitan, 1615 - 1673

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: Alexandro M. multa imperite in officina disserenti / silentium comiter suadebat Apelles, rideri eum dicens / a pueris, qui colores tererent. / Salvator Rosa Inu. Scul.

Marks and Labels

d star

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.

1985: Christopher Mendez, OLD MASTER PRINTS, London: 11/85, no.56.

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