Bandits on a Rocky Coast
Salvator Rosa
1655–60
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
29 1/2 x 39 3/8 in. (74.9 x 100 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Charles B. Curtis Fund, 1934
Accession Number
34.137
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Human FiguresLandscapes
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...