Study for a Prometheus Bound (recto); slight sketch of head and shoulders of man in lead pencil (verso)
Salvator Rosa
1615–73
Medium
Pen, brown ink and lead graphite
Dimensions
10 x 7 1/16 in. (25.4 x 17.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Henry Walters, 1917
Accession Number
17.236.41
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Men
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...