Luca Giordano, called Fa Presto (Naples 1634-1705)

Saint Sebastian tended by Saint Irene

Details

Luca Giordano, called Fa Presto (Naples 1634-1705)
Saint Sebastian tended by Saint Irene
oil on canvas, unframed
60 5/8 x 51 1/8 in. (154 x 129.9 cm.)

Provenance

Private collection, Lyon.

Literature

A. Griseri, ‘Luca Giordano "all maniera di”’, Arte antica e moderna, IV, 1961, p. 436, note 29.
O. Ferrari and G. Scavizzi, Luca Giordano, Naples, 1966, II, p. 11.
A. Brejon de Lavergnée and G. Scavizzi, Musées de France: Répertoire des peintures italiennes du XVIIe siècle, Paris, 1988, p. 177.
O. Ferrari and G. Scavizzi, Luca Giordano, Naples, 1992 and 2002, I, p. 252, no. A11.

Exhibited

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Poitiers, on long term loan.

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Lot Essay

This picture is an autograph version, dated by Ferrari and Scavizzi (2002, op. cit.) to circa 1650-53, of the Saint Sebastian tended by Saint Irene, now in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. The Dublin picture was traditionally attributed to Caravaggio and later Daniele Crespi before being identified by Robert Langton Douglas as an early work by Giordano.

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