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Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Salvator Rosa Sketching the Banditti
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Salvator Rosa Sketching the Banditti

Artist Thomas Moran (American, 1837 - 1926)
Date1860
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 40 x 66 7/8 in. (101.6 x 169.9 cm)
Overall, Frame: 47 x 74 in. (119.4 x 188 cm)
ClassificationsAmerican art
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.2127
Terms
  • People
  • Water
  • Cliff
  • Cave
  • Blue
  • Green
  • Red
  • Black
  • White
  • Brown
  • Philadelphia, PA
On View
On view
DescriptionOil on canvas painting of Salvator Rosa, an American artist, sketching the banditti. The group of figures are set into a landscape with a water; they are to the right of the steam, which runs through the rocky landscape.

Label TextThomas Moran American, 1837–1926 Salvator Rosa Sketching the Banditti, 1860 Oil on canvas In the cave at the center of this rocky valley, armored highway bandits hide out with their stolen treasures, as well as their captive, the Italian Old Master painter Salvator Rosa (1615–1673). According to legend, Rosa later used sketches of these fierce brigands and their wild mountain domain as the basis for his paintings. By making this tale the subject of a large exhibition picture, Thomas Moran publicly declared his ambition to follow in Rosa’s footsteps as a painter of sublime landscape scenery. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.2127
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