Jusepe de Ribera, called lo Spagnoletto

Saint Francis in meditation

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July 8, 01:46 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

Jusepe de Ribera, called lo Spagnoletto

Játiva, Valencia 1591 - 1652 Naples

Saint Francis in meditation

oil on canvas

unframed: 101.4 x 78.8 cm.; 39⅞ x 31 in.

framed: 117 x 94 cm.; 46⅛ x 37 in.

Private collection, Naples;
Private collection, Europe;
Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 15 October 2013, lot 563;
Where acquired by the present owner.

N. Spinosa, Ribera. La obra completa, Madrid 2008, pp. 458-59, under cat. no. A321, reproduced (as Ribera, dated circa 1643).

We are grateful to Prof. Riccardo Lattuada for endorsing the attribution to Ribera based on digital images. He dates the painting to circa or just after 1620, the period Ribera painted his series of Apostles for the Church of San Girolamini,¹and the Saints Peter and Paul today in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg.²This seems more convincing than the later date of circa 1643 proposed by Spinosa (see Literature).

¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girolamini,_Naples

²https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter_and_Saint_Paul_(Ribera)