Twee rustende herders
Salvator Rosa
1636-07-29
Medium
pen
Dimensions
103; 177
About this artwork
…; from the dealer J.L. Reichlen, Lausanne, 500 CHF, with 49 other drawings, to the museum, 1946;{Note RMA.} transferred in 1948
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...