Studies for Standing and Seated Figures.
Salvator Rosa
1634–1645
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush with gray and brown wash, over leadpoint or graphite
Dimensions
sheet: 8 9/16 x 14 in. (21.7 x 35.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Katrin Bellinger, 2008
Accession Number
2008.178.4
Tags
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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...