Youth Sitting on a Wall in Conversation with Two Men
c. 1656/1657
Medium
pen and brown ink and black chalk with gray wash on laid paper
Dimensions
Overall (approximate): 14.8 x 9.6 cm (5 13/16 x 3 3/4 in.) support: 26.8 x 18.7 cm (10 9/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Andrew W. Mellon Fund
Accession Number
1976.73.1
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...