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Warrior with a lance on a rearing horse

Maker

(artist)
1615-1673

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1612-1666

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1652

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, with two separate fragments added at upper right

Dimensions

Height: 15.5 cm
Width: 18.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1591

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

In 1652 – a few years after his return to Rome from Florence – Rosa was commissioned to produce a prestigious Battle Scene, which was intended as a gift for King Louis XIV of France. He executed a number of lively small sketches, including this energetic sheet, for some of the many warrior figures in the painting. The nervous pen and wash technique is typical of Rosa’s drawings from this period.

Provenance

Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), L.2445; William Esdaile, London (1758-1837) [according to the Witt index card, but no collector's mark evident]; Dr Barry Delany, Kilkenny (1815-1888) [according to the Witt index card, but no collector's mark evident; not listed in Delany's 1872 sale catalogue but could have been in a portfolio]; Sotheby's (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£3.75); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Special Display - Neapolitan drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 06/10/2011-26/01/2012

Salvator Rosa, London & England, 17/10/1973-23/12/1973

Literature

Salvator Rosa, Hayward Gallery, London, 1973
no. 61
pl. 12

Mahoney, Michael, The drawings of Salvator Rosa, New York and London 1977
no. 40.9

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper left, graphite: “42”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left, blindstamped: Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445). Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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