Luca Giordano (1632-1705)

Details

Luca Giordano (1632-1705)

The Deposition

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, lower left and upper right corners made up
365 x 219mm.

Provenance

Anon. sale, Christie's, 15 April 1980, lot 113, illustrated (£750).

Literature

A.E. Pérez Sánchez in Pintura napolitana de Caravaggio a Giordano, Madrid, 1985, p. 168.
G.C. Sestieri, Alcuni contributi alla grafica napoletana fra Sei e Settecento in Scritti di Storia dell'arte in onore di Raffaello Causa, Naples, 1988, p. 311.
O. Ferrari and G. Scavizzi, Luca Giordano, Naples, 1992, I, D25, fig. 199.

Lot Essay

Professor Angulo related the present drawing to Giordano's Deposition in the Santa Cruz Museum at Toledo, Spain, Ferrari and Scavizzi, op. cit., A. 122, fig. 198. The picture, previously attributed to Ribera, is dated 1659 by comparison with the Crucifixion of Saint Peter in the Academia, Venice.

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