Jason and the Dragon
Salvator Rosa
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
Tags
JasonDragons
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...