Publisher/Manufacturer: Salvator Rosa? 1662 Etching with drypoint in black on cream laid paper
464 x 278 mm.
The scroll is inscribed with the following: 'Ingenuus, Liber, Pictor Succensor, et Aequus, Spretor Opum, Mortisque. hic meus est Genius. Salvator Rosa' [translation; sincere, free, fiery painter and equable, despiser of wealth and death, this is my genius, Salvator Rosa.
Five figures idolise a semi-nude young man (Salvator Rosa?): a woman kneels with a painting, palette and brushes, a satyr holds a piece of paper, a robed man holds a book and some scales?, a young woman handles a pigeon and a standing woman presents a staff and a hat. The man himself wears a laurel and clasps a large ornate horn containing coins and jewels. In the foreground is a dead fish and a scroll with a Latin inscription. In the background is a smoking urn, fruit trees, poplars, and a wall with a relief featuring figures and an angel
