The Rescue of the Infant Oedipus
1663
Medium
etching with drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 72.7 × 47.8 cm (28 5/8 × 18 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of James A. Bergquist in honor of Faith and Dewayne Perry, Austin, Texas
Accession Number
2017.131.1
Rights
Public Domain
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...