Live Auction 5103Old Master Pictures
Lot 91THE PROPERTY OF A NOBLEMAN

Luca Giordano (1634-1705)

Closed10 December 1993

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GBP 27,600

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Luca Giordano (1634-1705)

An Old Testament Subject with an Old Man instructing a Youth and mocked by his Wife

signed 'Lu.. .ordano' (on the sheet of paper)
42 1/8 x 39 3/8in. (107 x 100cm.)

By inheritance from the present owner's grandfather

Specialist note

An early work, datable c.1659-60 when Giordano was at his most Riberesque. The head of the youth is close to that of Apollo in an Apollo and Marsyas known in two versions, in the Museo Nazionale di San Martino and a Neapolitan private collection (O. Ferrari and G. Scavizzi, Luca Giordano, Naples, 1992, I, pp. 269-70, nos. A128-9, and p. 32, colour pl. XVI; II, pp. 533 and 535, figs. 205 and 208, where dated c.1659-60)