Saint Jerome

Details

Jusepe de Ribera, lo Spagnoletto (Játiva, Valencia 1591-1652 Naples)
Saint Jerome
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)

Provenance

Abbé Thuélin, Paris.

Literature

A. Pérez Sánchez and N. Spinosa, L'opera completa del Ribera, Milan, 1978, no. 465 (as studio - see note below).

Exhibited

Paris, Hôtel Charpentier, La Demeure Historique, Exposition d'Art Ancien Espagnol, 1925, no. 97.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Sale room notice

We are grateful to Professor Riccardo Lattuada for independently attributing this picture in full to Ribera on the basis of a transparency (26 January 2001).

Lot Essay

In a facsimile dated 19 February 2001, Professor Nicola Spinosa confirms the autograph status of this picture, on the basis of a transparency, explaining that the attribution to the studio given in his 1978 Opera completa was based on a bad photograph.

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