Study for a Raising of Lazarus (recto); half-length study of bearded nude male figure, and a man and woman with donkey (verso)
Salvator Rosa
1615–73
Medium
Red chalk highlighted with white chalk
Dimensions
10-7/8 x 8-3/8 in. (27.6 x 21.3 cm.) (margins irregular)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Henry Walters, 1917
Accession Number
17.236.17
Tags
Male NudesSaints
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...