Male figure holding a flute reclining on a rock and pointing over the heads of two children, from "The Triton Group"
Salvator Rosa
ca. 1660–61
Medium
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 1/8 x 7 5/16 in. (13 x 18.5 cm) Plate: 4 5/16 x 6 9/16 in. (10.9 x 16.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.300.1
Tags
ChildrenMenFlutes
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...