Details
Jusepe de Ribera, lo Spagnoletto (1591-1652)
Saint Mary of Egypt in Ecstacy
69 5/8 x 48 3/8in. (177 x 123cm.)
Saint Mary of Egypt in Ecstacy
69 5/8 x 48 3/8in. (177 x 123cm.)
Provenance
The Palacio Real, Madrid
Purchased by Isidore, Baron Taylor in Madrid, where restored for him by Serafino Garcia de la Huerta in 1836
King Louis-Philippe of France; given to the Louvre and exhibited there in the Galerie Espagnole 1838-1848, but restored to the King as his private property after the revolution of 1848 and sold by his heirs, Christie's, 13 May 1853 (=3rd day), lot 238 (#11 to Bayley)
Mr. Gritten, Piccadilly; Christie's, 12 March 1859, lot 46 (3gns. to B.B.)
J.S.W.S. Erle Drax, Olantigh Towers, Wye, Kent; (+) Christie's, 19 Feb. 1910, lot 125 (5½gns. to Quinto)
J. de Muñoz de Ortiz et al. Sale, Lepke, Berlin, 12 Dec. 1911, lot 76 (to Ignatio Zuloaga)
Antonio Santamarina, Buenos Aires
Purchased by Isidore, Baron Taylor in Madrid, where restored for him by Serafino Garcia de la Huerta in 1836
King Louis-Philippe of France; given to the Louvre and exhibited there in the Galerie Espagnole 1838-1848, but restored to the King as his private property after the revolution of 1848 and sold by his heirs, Christie's, 13 May 1853 (=3rd day), lot 238 (#11 to Bayley)
Mr. Gritten, Piccadilly; Christie's, 12 March 1859, lot 46 (3gns. to B.B.)
J.S.W.S. Erle Drax, Olantigh Towers, Wye, Kent; (+) Christie's, 19 Feb. 1910, lot 125 (5½gns. to Quinto)
J. de Muñoz de Ortiz et al. Sale, Lepke, Berlin, 12 Dec. 1911, lot 76 (to Ignatio Zuloaga)
Antonio Santamarina, Buenos Aires
Literature
Comte de Circourt, Revue française et étrangère, May 1838, p. 55
R. Ford, The Athenaeum, 21 May 1853
J. Baticle and C. Marinas, La Galerie espagnole de Louis-Philippe au Louvre 1838-1848, Paris, 1981, pp. 151-2, no. 227, illustrated
R. Ford, The Athenaeum, 21 May 1853
J. Baticle and C. Marinas, La Galerie espagnole de Louis-Philippe au Louvre 1838-1848, Paris, 1981, pp. 151-2, no. 227, illustrated
Exhibited
Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, De los Primitivos a Goya, 1966, no. 69
Naples, Castel Sant'Elmo, Jusepe de Ribera, 27 Feb.-17 May 1992, pp. 252-4, no. 1.86, illustrated in colour
Naples, Castel Sant'Elmo, Jusepe de Ribera, 27 Feb.-17 May 1992, pp. 252-4, no. 1.86, illustrated in colour