[SALVATOR ROSA, after]

Drawing, pen and black ink, grey and white wash, 20,7 x 17 cm, laid paper with sm. watermark, signed 'Salvator Rosa at lower left in pen and brown ink, old coll. number '27' at upper right (hinged to paper mount at left edge, red pencil lines at bottom edge). Glaucus, half man, half sea-monster, raising himself onto the shore to left, his tail waving behind him, reaching out with one hand to the object of his love, Scylla, who hurries to flee from him towards the viewer. Drawn after a painting by Rosa in the museum of fine arts in Brussels (inv. 4577). Joined: Etching by Joseph Goupy, after the same painting