Attributed to Juan Carreo de Miranda (1614-1685)

Saint Peter

Details

Attributed to Juan Carreo de Miranda (1614-1685)
Carreo de Miranda, J.
Saint Peter
inscribed with the inventory number '10'
oil on canvas
32 x 26.7/8in. (81.2 x 68.3cm.)

Provenance

said to have come from the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, and been sold at Lepke, Berlin, 1922-23.
Mr. J.A. Vandenburgh, Nygmen, The Netherlands and Andover, MA (from whom purchased by the present owner in 1957).

Lot Essay

Although traditionally attributed to Ribera, the present work is stylistically closer to Juan Carreo de Miranda, who sometimes used Ribera's compositions as a starting point for his own (see for example his Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew in the Meadows Museum Dallas, of 1666, which is based on Ribera's etching of the same subject).

Professor A. E. Prez-Sanchez knows the work from a transparency and believes it to be by a Valencian artist working in the style of Ribera. He has suggested an attribution to Esteban March (c.1610-c.1668), noting similarities between the present painting and works by the artist (for comparisons, see the catalogue of the exhibition, Ribera, Naples, Feb. 27-May 17, 1992, p. 72).