Details
Jusepe de Ribera* (1588-1656)
Saint Bartholomew
indistinctly signed 'J. Ribera espagnol 1634'--oil on canvas
50 x 40in. (127 x 101.6cm.)
Provenance
H.R.H. Don Sebastian Gabriel de Borbón e Braganza, 1811-75.
Emile Pacully, Paris; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 4, 1903, lot 53 as Saint Andrew.
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, July 5, 1938, lot 27 as Saint Andrew (17,000 francs).
with Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York.
City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, (Acc. no. 1:39); Christie's, New York, June 5, 1985, lot 54 as School of Ribera.
Literature
M.R. Rogers, City Art Museum of Saint Louis, Bulletin, January, 1939, XXIV, no. 1, pp. 3-6, as Ribera of Saint Andrew.
Art News, XXXVII, Feb. 11, 1939, pp. 17-8, as Ribera of Saint Bartholomew.
D.F. Darby, Some Cases of Mistaken Identity, Art in America, XXX, January, 1942, no. 1.
Handbook of the Collections: The City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1953, p. 89 as Ribera.
Exhibition of Paintings and Graphics by Jusèpe de Ribera, Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, XIV, no. 2, Winter 1957, p. 74, no. 3 as Ribera.
J.A. Gaya Nuno, La Pintura Espanola Fuera de Espana, 1958, p. 277 as Ribera.
C. Felton, Jusépe de Ribera: A Catalogue Raisonné, unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, 1971, p. 441, no. X-61, under unaccepted attributions.
N. Spinosa, L'opera completa del Ribera, 1978, no. 293 as probably a workshop version of a lost original painted circa 1630-2.
Exhibited
Rosario, Argentina, Museo de Bellas Artes, January, 1943.
New London, CT, Lyman Allen Memorial Art Museum, Paintings and Graphics by Giuseppe Ribera, 1957, Museum Bulletin, XIV, 2, no. 3.
