Rocky Landscape with a Rustic House
Salvator Rosa
1601 to 1650
Medium
pen and brown ink
Dimensions
Overall: 23.5 x 42.5 cm (9 1/4 x 16 3/4 in.) support: 25.8 x 44.4 cm (10 3/16 x 17 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1983.55.1
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...