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Male figure holding a flute reclining on a rock and pointing over the heads of two children, from "The Triton Group"
ca. 1660–61
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Etching and drypoint
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 5 1/8 x 7 5/16 in. (13 x 18.5 cm) Plate: 4 5/16 x 6 9/16 in. (10.9 x 16.6 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2012.136.300.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Salvator Rosa. Male figure holding a flute reclining on a rock and pointing over the heads of two children, from "The Triton Group". Salvator Rosa; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
Male figure holding a flute reclining on a rock and pointing over the heads of two children, from "The Triton Group" — Salvator Rosa. ca. 1660–61.
Medium: Etching and drypoint. Dimensions: Sheet: 5 1/8 x 7 5/16 in. (13 x 18.5 cm) Plate: 4 5/16 x 6 9/16 in. (10.9 x 16.6 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.