Figures on a Winding Road (mid-1600s): Art, History and Details
Figures on a Winding Road at the Cleveland Museum of Art: mid-1600s, Pen and brown ink and brush and gray and brown wash, traces of framing lines in brown ink. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Figures on a Winding Road (mid-1600s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615–1673).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
The vitality of Rosa’s landscapes is indebted to his practice of constantly drawing the world around him, incorporating fresh observations of nature into his wild and awe-inspiring mature landscapes. Rosa’s drawings from the 1650s showcase his interest in capturing the mysterious and savage qualities of nature. Through sinewy paths or anthropomorphic cliffs, the environment overwhelms the small figures, evoking the power and magical qualities of nature.
Object facts
- Title: Figures on a Winding Road
- Date: mid-1600s
- Creator attribution: Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615–1673)
- Culture: Italy
- Type: Drawing
- Technique: Pen and brown ink and brush and gray and brown wash, traces of framing lines in brown ink
- Dimensions: Sheet: 18.4 x 12.5 cm (7 1/4 x 4 15/16 in.)
- Collection: DR - Italian
- Department: Drawings
- Accession number: 1975.17
Collection credit
Dudley P. Allen Fund
Further reading listed by the museum
- Langdon, Helen. Salvator Rosa Paint and Performance. London: Reaktion Books, Limited, 2022. .
- Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1975.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 2 (February 1976): 31–71.
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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