The Rescue of the Infant Oedipus
Salvator Rosa
1663
Medium
etching with drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 72.7 × 47.8 cm (28 5/8 × 18 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of James A. Bergquist in honor of Faith and Dewayne Perry, Austin, Texas
Accession Number
2017.131.1
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...