Plate 1: a peasant checking the hoof of his mule by a stream, from 'Landscapes in the manner of Salvator Rosa' (Die Landschaften in Sal. Rosa's)
ca. 1700–25
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 9 1/4 × 5 7/8 in. (23.5 × 15 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.1369
Art Historical Context
In the early 18th century, artist Franz Joachim Beich this etching, *Plate 1: a peasant checking the hoof of mule by a stream*, part of his series *Landscapes in manner of Salvator Rosa Salvator Rosa, a celebrated 17th-century Italian Baroque master, was renowned for his dramatic, rugged landscapes infused with wild scenery and romantic solitude. Beich, active around 1700–, paid homage to Rosa's style, blending pastoral scenes with a sense of untamed nature that captivated European audiences during the Baroque-to-Rococo transition. The intimate composition captures a humble peasant tending to...