id: 149105
accession number: 1977.37.1
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Scenes of Witchcraft: Morning, c. 1645–1649. Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615–1673). Oil on canvas; framed: 76.2 x 9.6 cm (30 x 3 3/4 in.); unframed: 54.5 cm (21 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1977.37.1
title: Scenes of Witchcraft: Morning
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creation date: c. 1645–1649
creation date earliest: 1640
creation date latest: 1654
current location: 217 Italian Baroque
creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Italy, 17th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615–1673) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 76.2 x 9.6 cm (30 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 54.5 cm (21 7/16 in.)
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inscription: Signed: "SR [monogram]"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Hot Dry Men, Cold Wet Women: The Theory of Humor and Depictions of Men and Women in Western European Art of the 1600s
opening date: 1997-09-13T00:00:00
Hot Dry Men, Cold Wet Women: The Theory of Humor and Depictions of Men and Women in Western European Art of the 1600s. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (September 13-November 2, 1997); Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR (November 20, 1997-February 6, 1998); John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL (February 27-April 24, 1998).
title: Salvator Rosa (1615-1673): Bandits, Wilderness, and Magic
opening date: 2010-12-12T00:00:00
Salvator Rosa (1615-1673): Bandits, Wilderness, and Magic. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (organizer) (December 12, 2010-March 27, 2011).
title: The Novel and the Bizarre: Salvator Rosa's Scenes of Witchcraft
opening date: 2015-02-15T00:00:00
The Novel and the Bizarre: Salvator Rosa's Scenes of Witchcraft. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 15-June 14, 2015).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'CMA, January 1978: Year in Review, cat. no. 42. Omaha, NE: Joslyn Art Museum 9/13 - 11/2/97. Little Rock, AR: Arkansas Art Center 11/20/97 - 2/6/98. Sarasota, FL: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art 2/27 - 4/26/98. "Hot Dry Men, Cold Wet Women: The Theory of Humor and Depictions of Men and Women in Western European Art of the 1600s."pp. 180-181, no. 62.', 'opening_date': '1997-11-02T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Kimbell Art Museum (12/12/2010 - 3/27/2011): "Salvator Rosa (1615-1673): Bandits, Wilderness, and Magic", ex. cat. no. 21a, p. 170-173.', 'opening_date': '2010-12-12T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art (2/15/2015 - 6/14/2015); "The Novel and the Bizarre: Salvator Rosa\'s Scenes of Witchcraft"', 'opening_date': '2015-02-15T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Niccolini Family (Florence, Italy) by 1657
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Private collection (Florence, Italy)
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Heim Gallery (London, England), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1977.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Langdon, Helen. Salvator Rosa Paint and Performance. London: Reaktion Books, Limited, 2022. .
page number: Chapter 2
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Fabbri, Sara. “Quattro Tondi con Incantesimi di Salvator Rosa nella collezione del marchese Filippo Niccolini.” Notizie da Palazzo Albani XXXVIII (2009): 81-104.
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 3. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.
page number: Reproduced: cat. 176A, p. 398 - 403
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 138
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n158
Salerno, Luigi, and Ira Kohn. "Four Witchcraft Scenes by Salvator Rosa." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 7 (September 1978): 225-31.
Published as: Witches' Scene
page number: Mentioned: P. 224-231: Reproduced: P. 224, 228
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159591
Cleveland Museum of Art. Images of the Mind. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987.
page number: Reproduced: [p. 12 - 13]
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"Education.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 55, no. 2 (March/April 2015): 30-31.
page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 31.
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2015-02
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