Shepherd in a Landscape
Salvator Rosa
c. 1660/1661
Medium
etching and drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 10.8 x 16.4 cm (4 1/4 x 6 7/16 in.) sheet: 13.1 x 19.4 cm (5 3/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1985.3.19
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...