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    Polycrates' Crucifixion
    Salvator Rosa. Polycrates' Crucifixion, 1664. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00000983

    Polycrates' Crucifixion

    by Salvator Rosa

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    Provenance

    Bonaventura Argenti (died 1697), Rome; by descent to Argenti’s heirs, Rome 1697 to 1698 [“Due quardri da Quattro palmi in circa, con due Historie di Policrate cornice dorata di Salvator Rosa, Scudi “Two pictures, each about four palms across, with two histories of Policrates framed in gold by Salvator Rosa, 250 Scudi; Giuseppe Ghezzi, “Quadri delle case de Prencipi in Roma,” 1686–1717, MS. 93, Palazzo Braschi, Rome, c. 283; published by Meroni 1978, p. 89 and de Marchi 1987, pp. 384, 392–93]; consigned for sale to Giuseppe Ghezzi, Rome, about 1698 [see Ghezzi 1686–1717 cited above]. Probably 2nd Earl of Warwick, (Warwick Castle) by 1801 [auction of June 1, 1801 at Christie’s, bought in, see Fredericksen and Zeri 1972]. Schaeffer Galleries, New York, 1942 [see New York 1942, no. 30]. A. F. Mondschein, New York by 1942; sold to the Art Institute, 1942.

    Exhibition history

    New York, Schaeffer Galleries, Gem of Baroque Painting, 1942, no. 30. New York, Durlacher Brothers, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Salvator Rosa 1615–1673, 1948, no. 2. Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Six Centuries of Landscape, 1952, no. 27 (ill.). Newark, New Jersey, The Newark Museum, Old Masters from American Collections, 1955–56, no. 7. Wellesley, Massachusetts, Wellesley College Museum, Salvator Rosa in America, 1979, no. 12, ill. London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Salvator Rosa, 1615-1673: Bandits, Wilderness and Magic; Fort Worth, Kimbell Museum of Art, December 12, 2010-March 27, 2011 [Fort Worth only].

    Publications

    Lady Morgan, The Life and Times of Salvator Rosa, London, 1824, vol. 2, p. 368. Frederick A. Sweet, “Two Canvases by Salvator Rosa, “ Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 36 (1942), p. 100–01 (ill.). “Report for the Year 1942,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 37 (March 1943), pt. 3, pp. 7, 157, ill. p. 138. Sol A. Davidson, “Twin Rosa Canvases Acquired by Chicago,” The Art Digest 17 (February 15, 1943), p. 15. The Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1945, p. 29. The Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1948, p. 26. The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961) p. 403. Luigi Salerno, Salvator Rosa, Milan, 1963, pp. 52, 112–13, pl. 20. A[lfred] M[oir], Art In Italy, 1600–1700, exh. cat., pp. 141–142, under no. 157. Richard William Wallace, “The Figure Paintings of Salvator Rosa,” Ph. D. diss., Princeton University, 1965, (Ann Arbor, University Microfilms), pp. 80, 82–89, 108–109, 157, fig. 49. Richard William Wallace, “Salvator Rosa’s ‘Death of Atilius Regulus’,” Burlington Magazine 109 (1967), p. 396. Richard William Wallace, “Salvator Rosa’s ‘Justice Appearing to the Peasants,’” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institute 30 (1967), p. 432. Anna Arricelli in Mostra di incisioni di Salvator Rosa, exh. cat. Turin, Galleria Sabauda, 1969, n.p. Peter A. Tomory, Salvator Rosa: His Etchings and Engravings After His Works, exh. cat., (John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 1971), n. p., under. No. 23. Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1972), pp. 177, 482, 571. Massimo Mussini, Salvator Rosa: Le incisioni, exh. cat., Parma, Galleria della Rochetta, 1972, n.p. Giampiero Bozzolate, Le incisioni di Salvator Rosa: Catalogo generale, Padua, 1973, p. 206, under no. 91. Richard Wallace, Salvator Rosa, 1973, exh. cat., Hayward Gallery, London 1975, p. 62, under no. 102. A[ndor] Pigler, Barockthemen : eine Auswahl von Verzeichnissen zur Ikonographie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, 2nd ed., Budapest, 1974, p. 415. Mario Rotili, Salvator Rosa incisore, Naples, 1974, pp. 101–102, 224, under no. 104, fig. 104b. Luigi Salerno, L’opera completa di Salvator Rosa, Milan, 1975, pp. 101–102, no. 213 (ill.), pl. 52–53. Michael Mahoney, The Drawings of Salvator Rosa, New York and London, 1977, I, pp. 115, 559–61, fig. 65.3A. Wendy Wassyng Roworth, “Pictor Succensor”:A Study of Salvator Rosa as Satirist, Cynic and Painter, New York and London, 1978, pp. 346, 361, fig. 55a. Ubaldo Meroni, Lettere e altri documenti intorno alla storia della pittura, Giovani Benedetto Castiglione, detto il Grecchetto, Salvator Rosa, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fonti per la storia della pittura e della scultura antica, VIII, Monzambano, 1978, p. 89. Luigi Salerno, Landscape Painters of the Seventeenth Century in Rome, Rome 1977–78, vol. 2, p. 550. Richard Wallace, The Etching of Salvator Rosa, Princeton, 1979, pp. 281–82, under no. III, fig. IIIa John T. Spike, review of Wellesley College Museum, Salvator Rosa in America, in Burlington Magazine 121 (1979), p. 543. Alba Costamagna in Incisori napoletani del 1600, exh. cat., Rome Villa Farnesina, 1981, pp. 154–5, under no. 152. Giulia de Marchi, Mostre di quardri a S. Salvatore in Lauro (1682–1725), stime di collezioni romane, note e appunti di Giuseppe Ghezzi, Misascellanea della Società Romana di Storia Patria, Rome, 1987, pp. 392–93. Monica Preti in Il Seicento Fiorentino. Arte a Firenze da Ferdinando I a Cosimo III, exh. cat. Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 1986, p. 158. Monica Preti in La pittura in Italia: Il Seicento, Milan, 1988, vol. 2, p. 868. Jonathan Scott, Salvator Rosa. His Life and Times, New Haven and London, 1999, pp. 153–6, 181, 185, fig. 194. Andreas Stolzebburg et al., Salvator Rosa : Genie der Zeichnung : Studien und Skizzen aus Leipzig und Haarlem, exh. cat., Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, 1999, p. 184, ill. Sotheby’s, London, Italian Drawings From the Collection of Jak Katalan, (July 10, 2002), p. 112, under lot 70, fig. 2.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615–1673)
    Date
    1664
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    73.4 × 98.9 cm (28 7/8 × 38 15/16 in.); Framed: 87 × 112.4 × 7 cm (34 1/4 × 44 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    17th Century
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Wentworth Greene Field Memorial Fund
    Accession no.
    1942.292

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