Rocky landscape with figures

Another painting that passed through the Munich Central Collecting Point after World War II, this rocky landscape with figures dates from 1651 and documents both Rosa"s middle-period style and the wartime disruptions that displaced European art collections. The paired presence of two Rosa paintings at the CCP suggests they may have come from the same looted collection, though their individual histories would require specific provenance research to establish.

Rocky terrain dominates the composition, with Rosa"s characteristic geological forms—sharp-edged outcroppings, massive boulders, and deep fissures—rendered in bold brushwork. The figures are integrated into the landscape rather than posed against it, their forms partially obscured by the rocks and shadows around them. The palette stays within Rosa"s standard range of earth tones, creating a unified atmospheric effect that blurs the boundary between figure and landscape.