Jason and the Dragon
Salvator Rosa
c. 1663/1664
Medium
etching and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 34.5 x 21.8 cm (13 9/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Neil and Sharon Phillips
Accession Number
1985.57.1
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...