Painted by Salvator Rosa for Cardinal Giancarlo de' Medici, and now in the Palatine Gallery of the Pitti Palace.
Cook and Wedderburn add an extract from Ruskin 's Florentine diary of 1845 in which he recorded the following note on the picture:
It struck me at first as fine from its simple treatment-a single dark tree against afternoon sun, which melts the distance down into light. This light is well painted, transparent, and softly blended, Cuyp-like, but the treatment is exactly the opposite of Rubens' and Turner's. The details of the foreground are here carefully painted, while the distance is all slurred into nothing, so that the picture has no attractiveness on looking close. It is farther vulgarized by the tree being put against it in coarse violent black, like a tyro's work, no middle tint, and the trunk of the tree is far too small for its mass of foliage. I am wrong in saying the distance is slurred; if it were, it would be more right than it is, but it is painted in coarse, large masses, without any details-not indistinct, but vacant, and therefore every way painful. ( Works, 3.582)
Salvator Rosa 1615-73
Peace - Burning the Arms of War n.d.
medium unknown, size unknown
Provenance: Painted for Cardinal Carlo de'Medici
Collection: Pitti Palace, Florence
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