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拍品专文
Giovanni Ricca is first recorded in 1641 when he received payment for the Transfiguration painted for the Church of Santa Maria della Sapienza in Naples. In the unpublished 1702 inventory of the collection of the Marquess of San Leucio, he is listed as the author of several saints' heads, in round canvases of small format: three of them were identified by Ferdinando Bologna and are now in the Capodimonte Museum in Naples. The work of Giovanni Ricca is a perfect illustration of the combined influence of Ribera's naturalism and van Dyck's vibrant palette in Neapolitan painting.
We are grateful to Professor Riccardo Lattuada for suggesting the attribution to Giovanni Ricca on the basis of a color transparency (written communication, 1 April 2005). For further reading on this Neapolitan follower of Jusepe de Ribera, see Ricerche sul '600 napoletano: saggi vari in memoria di Raffaello Causa, Milan, 1984, pp. 9-29, pl. 7.
We are grateful to Professor Riccardo Lattuada for suggesting the attribution to Giovanni Ricca on the basis of a color transparency (written communication, 1 April 2005). For further reading on this Neapolitan follower of Jusepe de Ribera, see Ricerche sul '600 napoletano: saggi vari in memoria di Raffaello Causa, Milan, 1984, pp. 9-29, pl. 7.