Jason and the Dragon
1663–64
Medium
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
Plate: 13 5/16 × 8 9/16 in. (33.8 × 21.8 cm) Sheet: 14 5/16 × 9 15/16 in. (36.4 × 25.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.301
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
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...