An old, ragged man with a gourd on his hip walking with a staff, from the series 'Figurine'
Salvator Rosa
ca. 1656–57
Medium
Etching with drypoint
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 15/16 x 5 3/16 in. (20.2 x 13.2 cm) Plate: 5 1/2 x 3 9/16 in. (14 x 9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.299.5
Tags
MenWalking
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...