Diogenes Casting Away His Bowl
Salvator Rosa
1661–1662
- Medium
- Etching and drypoint on dark cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 46 × 27.6 cm (18 1/8 × 10 7/8 in.); Sheet, max: 46.8 × 28.7 cm (18 7/16 × 11 5/16 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
Diogenes di Sinope (413-323 B.C.), an ascetic philosopher of Athens and Corinth, is said to have eschewed worldly goods to such an extent that he threw away his drinking bowl upon seeing a youth drinking water from cupped hands. This famous etching by Salvator Rosa reproduces (in reverse) the artist’s painting of the same subject in the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (1651/52).
