Giuseppe Ribera, Il Spagnoletto (1591-1652)

Details

Giuseppe Ribera, Il Spagnoletto (1591-1652)

A Mother carrying a Child and Kitchen Utensils, followed by a boy and a dog

with inscription 'Spagnoletto' on the mount; pen and brown ink, brown wash, on light brown paper, upper right corner and lower margin made up, losses
7 x 4 5/8in. (178 x 118mm.)

Provenance

With F. Rockman.

Literature

J. Brown, More Drawings by Jusepe de Ribera, Master Drawings, XII, 1974, p. 371, no. 18, pl. 34b.

Exhibited

Institute of Fine Arts, 1961.

Lot Essay

Jonathan Brown dates this drawing to the 1640s. The linear strokes and the heavy and opaque wash are characteristic of these years.
Other than caricatures, genre subjects are rare in Ribera's oeuvre: among these are Acrobats on a loose Wire in the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, and the Beggars, in Bassano del Grappa, J. Brown, Jusepe de Ribera, Prints and Drawings, exhib. cat., The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1973, figs. 52 and 45.