Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Salvator Rosa Drawings at Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Salvator Rosa
Apollo and Daphne
before 1673
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Salvator Rosa
Young man meditating on a skull
ca. 1655
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Salvator Rosa
Hermit standing in landscape
ca. 1660-65
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

These works made part of the large collection shipped from Rome to Haarlem in the Netherlands in 1790, where they have remained ever since at Teylers Museum. Relatively few drawings by Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) are to be found outside Italy even today. This beautiful group was probably acquired in Rome  and credibly from the artist himself  by the expatriate Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) during the second half of the seventeenth century.

Salvator Rosa
Falling soldier, shouting
ca. 1650-52
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Salvator Rosa
Rider falling backwards from his horse
ca. 1645-46
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Salvator Rosa
Studies for kneeling old man
ca. 1662-65
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Salvator Rosa
Three men helping an older man
ca. 1640-60
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Salvator Rosa
Prophets Habakkuk and Jeremiah voicing lamentations, with putti
ca. 1645
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Salvator Rosa
Two soldiers
ca. 1656
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Salvator Rosa
Landscape with shepherd playing lute
ca. 1640-49
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Salvator Rosa
Landscape with groups of figures
before 1673
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Salvator Rosa
Standing man in antique dress
ca. 1662
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Salvator Rosa
Standing man in antique dress
ca. 1662
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Salvator Rosa
Woman seated on low wall
ca. 1650-55
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Salvator Rosa
Wanderer under large trees
ca. 1659-61
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem