
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006132The Nurturing of Jupiter
Provenance
An English 18th–Century collector, with an unidentified mount. John Maxon (1916–1977), Chicago. Private Collection Switzerland, by 1984. David Lachenmann, Zurich; sold to Jean and Steven Goldman, 2011; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.
Exhibition history
Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Selection of Italian Drawings from North American Collections, 1970, cat.. 45 (catalogue by Walter Vitzthum); Saint Louis Art Museum, Italian Drawings selected from Mid-Western Collections, 1972, cat. 39 (catalogue by Nancy Ward Neilson); Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Old Master Drawings from American Collections, 1976, cat. 123 (catalogue by Ebria Feinblatt); Wellesley College Museum, Jewetts Arts Center, Salvator Rosa in America, 1979, cat. 52 (catalogue by Richard W. Wallace); Naples, Museo di Capodimonte, Civilità del Seicento a Napoli, 1984, II, cat. 3.72 (catalogue by Julien Stock). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection," November 1, 2014-February 1, 2015.
Publications
Luigi Salerno, Salvator Rosa, Florence, 1963, p. 130; Walter Vitzthum, I disegni dei maestri, il barocco a Napoli e nell’Italia meridionale, Milan, 1971, p. 83, pl. XV; Luigi Salerno, Salvator Rosa, exh. cat., London, Hayward Gallery, 1973, under cat. 66; Luigi Salerno, L’opera completa di Salvator Rosa, Milan, 1975, under no. 190; Michael Mahoney, The Drawings of Salvator Rosa, New York, 1977, I, no. 53.4, II, pl. 53.4; Jonathan Scott, Salvator Rosa, His Life and Times, New Haven and London, 1995, p. 252 n 15; Andreas Stolzenburg, Salvator Rosa, Genie der Zeichnung, Studien und Skizzen aus Leipzig und Haarlem, exh. cat., Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste and Haarlem, Teylers Museum, 1999, p. 243 n. 3; Helen Langdon, Xavier.F. Salomon and Caterina Volpi, Salvator Rosa (1615–1673): bandits, wilderness and magic, exh. cat., Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2011, under cat. Xxx?. …. .
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Salvator Rosa / Naples 1615–1673 Rome
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- Brush and brown and gray (possibly discolored) washes and pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk, on tan laid paper; laid down on tan paper; ruled along edges in yellow metallic paint
- Dimensions
- 30.2 × 20.3 cm (11 15/16 × 8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- brush and wash
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Jean and Steven Goldman
- Accession no.
- 2018.799
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