Roman School, 17th Century
Fame crowning a warrior
Lot Closed
July 6, 12:09 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Roman School, 17th Century
Fame crowning a warrior
Pen and brown ink over black chalk;
bears old attribution in pen and ink, on the mount: Salvator Rosa
260 by 197 mm
sale, London, Sotheby's, 6 July 1987, lot 28 (as Salvator Rosa)
This lively depiction of Fame crowning a warrior is a preparatory study for a drawing, entitled The Victory of Godfrey de Bouillon, in the Royal Collection, Windsor.1 The Windsor drawing, catalogued as Roman School, depicts three kings kneeling in surrender to a knight, who is being crowned by Fame. Blunt and Cooke's catalogue note compares it with another drawing in the collection, A Sacrifice,2 and suggests they are 🃏execuꦆted by the same hand, both possibly intended for engravings.
1. A. Blunt and H. L. Cooke, The Roman Drawings of the XVII & XVIII Centuries in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle, London 1960, p. 122, cat. no. 1060, reproduced p.120, fig. 🍸116
2. Ibid., p. 122, cat. no. 🅰1053, reproduced p. 120, fig. 1🗹15