Studies for a Figure Lifted from a Grave or Pit by Cords. V e r s o: Further Study of the Same Figure
Salvator Rosa
1615–73
Medium
Pen and brown ink (recto and verso)
Dimensions
6 3/16 x 4 7/8in. (15.7 x 12.4cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund and Walter C. Baker Gift, 1969
Accession Number
69.20
Tags
Men
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...