Apple Harvesters and Resting Shepherds
Salvator Rosa
n.d.
Medium
Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash, on cream laid paper, laid down on gray card
Dimensions
16.1 × 19.8 cm (6 3/8 × 7 13/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
85633
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...