Art, literature & history
Two ox skulls and a portion of a third, study for "Democritus in Meditation"
1662
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 5 9/16 × 3 5/8 in. (14.2 × 9.2 cm)
- Collection no.
- 53.509.6
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Salvator Rosa. Two ox skulls and a portion of a third, study for "Democritus in Meditation". Salvator Rosa; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953. 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
Two ox skulls and a portion of a third, study for "Democritus in Meditation" — Salvator Rosa. 1662.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet: 5 9/16 × 3 5/8 in. (14.2 × 9.2 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953.
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.