A Standing Man Leaning on a Stick
c. 1662
Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash, laid down on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 16.9 × 9 cm (6 5/8 × 3 9/16 in.) (irregular) mount: 22.4 × 17.9 cm (8 13/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Edith Tanenbaum Rudolf Collection
Accession Number
2022.75.5
About the Artist
Salvator Rosa · 1615–1673
Salvator Rosa was born in 1615 in Arenella, on the outskirts of Naples, into a world of artistic ambition and turbulent talent. His early training came through his maternal uncle, the painter Paolo Greco, and his brother-in-law Francesco Fracanzano, himself a pupil of the great Spanish-born Neapolitan master Jusepe de Ribera. Rosa showed a fierce independence from the start, resisting his father's...