FreeThe Studio of Salvator Rosa in the Mountains of the Abruzzi
Thomas Jones Barker (British, 1815–1882)
Title
The Studio of Salvator Rosa in the Mountains of the Abruzzi
Artist
Thomas Jones Barker (British, 1815–1882)
Date
1865
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
44 × 72 1/8 in. (111.8 × 183.2 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Collectors' Choice 1985
Object Number
1986.12
On View
On view
J. M. Liddell, by 1978;
Purchased at his sale, Christie’s, London, October 13, 1978, lot 178, by Gordon’s, London.
Purchased from Gordon’s, London by a private collector, New Jersey;
Purchased at sale from a private collection, Christie’s, New York, October 29, 1986, lot 179, by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1986.
Royal Academy, London, 1865, no. 587.
Joslyn Treasures: Well Traveled and Rarely Seen, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, June 3–August 28, 2011.
Titian to Monet: European Paintings from Joslyn Art Museum, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, October 14, 2022-January 8, 2023; Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from Joslyn Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, February 22–May 28, 2023.
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts. MDCCCLXV. The ninety-seventh, exh. cat. (London, 1865), 31.
Bernard Barryte, “History and Legend in T. J. Barker’s The studio of Salvator Rosa in the Mountains of Abruzzi, 1865,” Art Bulletin, vol. 71, no. 4 (December 1989): 660–73, (repro.).
A Portrait of the Artist, 1525–1825: Prints from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, exh. cat. (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 2005), 15.
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 24, 156–57, (repro.).