The Prodigal Son
Salvator Rosa
1615–73
Medium
Gray, black and brown wash, black and white chalk
Dimensions
22-7/16 x 17-3/8 in. (57.0 x 44.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Otto Naumann, 1994
Accession Number
1994.536.1
Tags
MenCowsGoats
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...