St. Paul, Hermit
1615–73
Medium
Pen and brown and black ink, brown wash, over black chalk, corrected and highlighted with gray gouache
Dimensions
11-1/2 x 7-5/8 in. (29.2 x 19.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1976
Accession Number
1976.331.1
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
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...