Landscape
mid 1660s
Medium
pen and brown ink with gray wash on laid paper
Dimensions
Overall (approximate): 19.1 x 13.1 cm (7 1/2 x 5 3/16 in.) support: 32.8 x 25.7 cm (12 15/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1971.25.2
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...