Salvator Rosa
Italian, 1615-1673
Diogenes Casting Away His Bowl
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Salvator Rosa
Italian, 1615-16731661–62
Diogenes Casting Away His Bowl
Salvator Rosa Italian, 1615-1673 →etchingprint
Date
1661–62
Medium
Etching and drypoint on dark cream laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 46 × 27.6 cm (18 1/8 × 10 7/8 in.); Sheet, max: 46.8 × 28.7 cm (18 7/16 × 11 5/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Suzanne Lord Folds and Everett D. Graff endowment funds
Diogenes di Sinope (413-323 B.C.), an ascetic philosopher of Athens and Corinth, is said to have eschewed worldly goods to such an extent that he threw away his drinking bowl upon seeing a youth drinking water from cupped hands. This famous etching by Salvator Rosa reproduces (in reverse) the artist’s painting of the same subject in the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (1651/52).
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