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

Male figure holding a flute reclining on a rock and pointing over the heads of two children, from "The Triton Group" by Salvator Rosa

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 · 16151673

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...

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