Salvator Rosa Study of Two Seated Male Figures. Brush and brown ink and wash on cream laid paper mounted on card stock. 135 x 110mm: 5. 375 x 4.375 inches. Inscribed "Rosa" in pencil, lower right recto. Excollection Ludwig Pollak (Lugt supplement

Salvator Rosa Study of Two Seated Male Figures. Brush and brown ink and wash on cream laid paper mounted on card stock. 135 x 110mm: 5. 375 x 4.375 inches. Inscribed "Rosa" in pencil, lower right recto. Excollection Ludwig Pollak (Lugt supplement 788b, lower right recto), J Nichols Streep, Alexander Ryder and Dr. Edward W Doucet, the last 3 according to notes in ink on the frame back. The present work relatesclosely to several drawings in Mahoney's "Group 12," characterized byfluid pen and ink contours and loose, fluid bown ink washes, notably T'hree Men Pointing at an Armed Figure and A Man Seated on a Rock ( Mahoney, The Drawings of Salvator Rosa, New York, 1977, nos. 12.4 and12.6.