Study after Salvator Rosa's "Figurine"

Inscriptions

Signed, lower left: SR

Label

These two drawings were copied after a series of 62 prints of different figures by the Italian artist Salvator Rosa. Trained in Naples, Rosa worked mostly in Rome where he found success with his allegorical representations and dramatic narrative paintings. His “Figurine” series features various warriors in different kinds of armor and poses. These two drawings represent contemporary infantry men, shown at rest in their armor, which becomes the sole marker of their identity. Rosa’s series was widely copied by other artists, who might emulate the Italian prints to learn to draw or to incorporate his figures into their larger compositions. Rosa’s soldiers were especially popular as a source. A distinct social group within European society in this period, soldiers became a subject of artistic study in their own right.

Course History

Anthropology 3.01, Introduction to Anthropology, Charis Ford Morrison Boke 1, Summer 2023

Studio Art 27.01/28.01/74.01, Printmaking I/II/III, Josh Dannin, Summer 2024

Exhibition History

Recording War: Images of Violence, 1500-1900, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 23-December 9, 2023.

Provenance

1961 purchase from Hoepli, Milan, Italy; 1964 purchased from Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, Los Angeles.

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