Bandits robbing Travellers
Salvator Rosa (Arenella, Naples 1615 – Rome 1673)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1639 - 1673
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
637 x 753 mm
Place of origin
Naples
Order this imageCollection
Knole, Kent
NT 129869
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Bandits robbing Travellers by Salvator Rosa (Arenella, Naples 1615 – Rome 1673), circa 1639. A rocky ravine, with tower on top, with travellers attacked by bandits.
Provenance
Thomas Jenkins (1722 - 1798) and acquired from him by 3rd Duke of Dorset (1745-1799) and thence by family descent; on loan from the Trustees of the Sackville Estate
Credit line
Knole, The Sackville Collection
Makers and roles
Salvator Rosa (Arenella, Naples 1615 – Rome 1673), publisher
References
Morgan 1824 S. Morgan, The Life and Times of Salvator Rosa, London, 1824, II, 24, p. 371 Salerno 1975 L. Salerno, L’Opera Completa di Salvator Rosa, 1975, no. 17, p. 86 Salvator Rosa tra mito e magia, exh. cat. (ed. N. Spinosa et al), Naples, 2008, p. 210 Painting in Naples From Caravaggio to Giordano, exh. cat. (eds. J. Martineau & C. Whitfield), Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2 October - 12 December 1982 1982, no. 133, p. 236 Salvator Rosa, Bandits, Wilderness and Magic, exh. cat. (eds. Helen Langdon with Xavier F. Salomon), Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 15 September - 28 November 2010 and Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 12 December 2010 - 27 March 2011, no. 25