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Philipp Peter Roos is also associated with the name Rosa da Tivoli, a nickname that biographical tradition connects with his settlement in that Italian town. The son and pupil of Johann Heinrich Roos, he travelled to Italy at the expense of Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, and arrived in Rome in 1677. There he is said to have been a pupil of the painter Giacinto Brandi.
The titles held in collections and recorded by sources sketch out a world in which animals and landscape have a prominent place: the Art Institute of Chicago lists Shepherdess and Sheep and Cow, both undated, while a biographical note records a Sheep Devoured by a Wolf at the Louvre and a View of the Waterfalls of Tivoli at the Vienna museum. The same note mentions a few etchings on rustic subjects, another aspect of his practice.
His career forms part of the history of a family of painters, at least eight of whose members were active mainly in Germany, Holland and Italy between 1650 and 1800. Among Philipp Peter Roos’s seven children, Cajetan, known as Gaetano de Rosa, and Jacob, known as Rosa da Napoli, also became animal painters and landscape artists. The exhibitions recorded testify to a later interest in animal painting and the family history of the Roos: Künstler sehen Tieren was presented at the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Brunswick in 1977, followed by Roos, eine deutsche Künstlerfamilie des 17. Jahrhunderts at the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin in 1986. In 2010, Les toiles transalpines du musée des Beaux-Arts was shown at the Vieille Charité in Marseille from June to September. Two paintings titled Shepherd and Animals in a Landscape are also recorded at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires.
This profile brings together identity references for Philipp Peter Roos and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
7 references are documented at Dobiaschofsky, Schuler. Each record links to its source; the amounts are not a general valuation of the artist’s work.
Oil on canvas
In der Art
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2013-05-17
Published result : 2800 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 3000
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in der Art
Öl auf Papier
Date to be documented
Published result : 1600 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1900
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Oil on canvas
Attribué à Roos, Philipp Peter — zugeschrieben Hirte mit seiner Herde am Wasser bei einer Ruine
Öl auf Leinwand
zugeschrieben
Catalogue period : 2014-12-12
Attributed
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 2000–3000
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Oil on canvas
École de ROSA DA TIVOLI — Uferidylle mit Booten und Hirtin.
Öl auf Leinwand
Schule
Date to be documented
School
Published result : 600 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000
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Oil on canvas
Umkreis
Öl auf Leinwand
Date to be documented
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Published result : 2200 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 3000
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Oil on wood
Umkreis
Öl auf Holz
Date to be documented
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Published result : 1100 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1800
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Berger endormi avec son troupeau
Öl auf Leinwand
Entourage de
Date to be documented
Circle of
Published result : 1200 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 2800
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Documentation updated : 2026-10-19
