Standing Draped Figure in Profile (recto); Massacre of the Innocents (verso)
Salvator Rosa
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with traces of graphite (recto), and pen and brown ink (verso), on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
12.4 × 5.4 cm (4 15/16 × 2 3/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
112455
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...