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Rocky landscape with herdsmen and cattle

Artist: ROSA, Salvator (1615 - 1673)

In this landscape sheer cliffs and twisted trees tower menacingly over the herdsmen below. Salvator Rosa's landscapes are dark, savage and often macabre. He was indifferent to the demands of ideal beauty as seen in the landscapes of Claude and Poussin. His vivid, controversial life made him a hero in eighteenth-century Britain, where his work had a powerful influence on artists, particularly the great Welsh landscape painter Richard Wilson.

Rocky Landscape with Herdsmen and Cattle
Image: © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 8

Creation/Production

ROSA, Salvator
Role: Creation
Date: 1660 ca

Acquisition

Bequest, 25/2/1925

Measurements

Height: 50.5cm
Width: 68cm
h(cm) frame:70.0
w(cm) frame:87.0
d(cm) frame:8.5

Techniques

canvas

Material

oil

Location

Gallery 02

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