Attributed to Jusepe de Ribera, called Lo Spagnoletto (1591-1652)

Saint Andrew

细节

Attributed to Jusepe de Ribera, called Lo Spagnoletto (1591-1652)
Ribera, J.
Saint Andrew
oil on canvas
28 x 23in. (73 x 59.6cm.)

来源

Muse Napoleon.
M. Morrison, Paris (according to an old label on the stretcher).
Colonel Samuel Burkhardt, until 1927/8, when given to the father of the present owner, and by descent.

拍品专文

The traditional identification of the saint represented in this effigy as Saint Andrew is not entirely secure. Although the martyr Andrew is represented with an X-shaped cross in two fully attributed works by Ribera (two larger, three-quarter length portrayals in the Quadreriadei Girolamini, Naples and Museo del Prado, Madrid, Inv. no. 1078), the saint was also depicted in the Madrid Apostolades holding a fish by a line (Prado, Inv. nos. 1076 and 1077). Furthermore, the cross in the present lot is a traditional Latin cross and not the X-shaped one of Andrew's martyrdom.

On the basis of a transparency, Professor Nicola Spinosa believes the present work to be by Ribera (verbal communication).