Artist: Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615 – 1673)
Medium: Antique Etching on wove paper after the original oil on canvas by master etcher Claude Francois Fortier (French 1775-1835).
Signature: Signed in the plate, lower right.
Dimensions: Image Size 4 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Image Size 14 x 16 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Salvator Rosa was an Italian Baroque painter, poet, and printmaker, who was active in Naples, Rome, and Florence. As a painter, he is best known as “unorthodox and extravagant” as well as being a “perpetual rebel” and a proto-Romantic.