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L'Umana Fragilità (Human Frailty) Rosa, Salvator (painter)
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Title/s	L'Umana Fragilità
Translated title	Human Frailty
Maker/s	Rosa, Salvator (painter) [ULAN info: Italian artist, 1615-1673]
Category	painting
Name	painting
School/Style	Italian Neapolitan School
Technique Description	oil on canvas
Dimensions	height: 197.4 cm width: 131.5 cm
Date	circa 1656
Provenance	bought: Knoedler, Messrs 1958 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints) Cardinal Flavio Chigi (c. 1630-93), Rome; presumably in the possession of the Chigi family until an unknown date before 1824; John, 2nd Lord Northwick (1770-1859); Northwick sale, Christie's, 20 May 1838 (114), bt. in; Northwick sale, Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, Philips, 26 July 1859 (1120), bt. Agnew; sold by Messrs Thomas Agnew, London, to R.C. Fergusson, August 1859; descended to his grandson-in-law, Lt.-Col. Wallace Cunninghame, D.S.O.; his sale, Christie's, 7 March 1958 (28), bt. Messrs Knoedler London
Inscriptions/Marks	Position: on the scroll Content: Conceptio Culpa, Nasci pena, / Labor vita, Necesse Mori monogram Position: on the blade of the knife Content: S.R.
Documentation	(2005) Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum, London: Scala [page: 63] Sale Catalogue, [page: 6] 7 1958) [comments: Christie's] Goodison, J.W. (1967) [Unknown; Illustrated London News; 1960], London [page: 30] Source title: Illustrated London News (1960) Sutton, Denys (1959) Christie's Since the War: An Essay in Taste, Patronage and Collecting, London: Christie, Manson & Woods [comments: pl. 143] Salerno, L. (1963) Salvator Rosa, Milan [comments: pl. XV (in colour)] Goodison, J.W. (1967) Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Italian School, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: 139-143] [comments: pl. 61] Weil, M.S. (1974) Salvator Rosa's St. John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness, [page: 62] Source title: St. Louis Art Museum, Museum Monographs, III ( [comments: fig. 4] Wassyng Rowarth, Wendy The Consolations of Friendship: Salvator Rosa's Self-Portrait for Giovanni Battista Ricciardi, : Metropolitan Museum of Art [page: 103-124] 1988) [comments: fig. 17] Van Delft, Louis (1995) L'incision de la mémoire: brièveté et anatomie, Source title: La Quete Du Bonheur et L'Expression de la Douleur dans la Littérature et la Pensée Françaises ( [comments: fig. 1]
Accession Number	PD.53-1958 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints) (Reference Number: 599; Input Date: 1999-12-14 / Last Edit: 2011-01-12)
Related Object	PD.5-2002 - Study for 'L'Umana Fragilità'
Related Resources	Pharos

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L'Umana Fragilità (Human Frailty)

Rosa, Salvator (painter)