LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

37.83 in. (96.10 cm.) (height) by 60.75 in. (154.30 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Northampton, Northants., Museum and Art Gallery, Italy and the Grand Tour in the XVII and XVIII Centuries, 14 March - 11 April 1959, no. 49; also cited in non-paginated introd. by G. Isham;; London, Royal Academy of Arts, Italian Art and Britain, 2 January - 6 March 1990, no. 44;; London, Hayward Gallery, Salvator Rosa, 17 October- 23 December 1973, no. 8;; Naples, Museo di Capodimonte, Salvator Rosa: tra mito e magia, 18 April - 29 June 2008, no. 57.

Provenance:

Possibly Jaques Courtois, il Borgognone (1621-1675);; Thereafter recorded in the collection of Conte Franceso Maria Carpegna (1661-1749), Rome;; John Spencer (1734-1783), 1 st Earl Spencer, Althorp, Northamptonshire, by 1750;; By descent, until 1979, when acquired.