A Large Tree, 1615–73, Pen and brown ink, on brown paper, 24 3/16 x 16 7/16in. (61.5 x 41.8cm), Drawings, Salvator Rosa (Italian, Arenella (Naples) 1615–1673 Rome), Of his myriad achievements as an artist and man of letters, the brilliant and moody Salvator Rosa's contributions to the increasingly popular genre of landscape in the seventeenth century loom large. This spirited drawing of a towering, gnarled tree, its dense matrix of branches and leaves rendered in careful detail, is exceptional not only for its monumental scale but also for its exclusive focus on a single specimen: divorced from any narrative context, the tree is also isolated from a broader landscape-the arboreal equivalent of a solitary, standing figure
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