Study for a Prometheus Bound (recto); slight sketch of head and shoulders of man in lead pencil (verso)
Salvator Rosa
1615–73
Medium
Pen, brown ink and lead graphite
Dimensions
10 x 7 1/16 in. (25.4 x 17.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Henry Walters, 1917
Accession Number
17.236.41
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...