Diogenes Casting Away His Bowl

Prints and Drawings

1661–1662

Salvator Rosa
Italian, 1615-1673

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).

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Salvator Rosa
Title: Diogenes Casting Away His Bowl
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 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.)
Credit Line: Suzanne Lord Folds and Everett D. Graff Endowments
Reference Number: 1995.222
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