Lot 34: Jusepe de Ribera, lo Spagnoletto (Játiva, Valencia 1591-1652 Naples)

Jusepe de Ribera, lo Spagnoletto (Játiva, Valencia 1591-1652 Naples) A philosopher holding a mirror signed 'Jusepe de Ribera F' (lower left) oil on canvas 45 x 31½ in. (114.4 x 80 cm.)

Madrid, Palacio de Velázquez, Parque del Retiro, El arte en la época de Calderon, December 1981-January 1982.

M. Díaz Padrón, 'Dos Grecos y un Jusepe Ribera inéditos', Archivo Español de Arte, XLV, 1972, pp. 318-20, fig. 5, as 'el original', signed, possessing 'Vigor de factura y plasticidad', 'Su calidad no demerece con las piezas de Ribera del mayor rango, e la época primera'. A.E. Pérez Sánchez and N. Spinosa, L'opera completa del Ribera, Milan, 1978, p. 127, no. 236, as a version of a lost original, bearing an 'apocryphal signature'. B. Nicholson, Caravaggism in Europe, second ed., revised and enlarged by L. Vertova, Oxford, 1979, I, p. 162, no. 484; II, fig. 484, as signed. N. Spinosa, Ribera: L'opera completa, Naples, 2003, pp. 350 and 395, under no. B15, as one of many copies after a lost original. N. Spinosa, Ribera: L'opera completa, 2nd ed., Naples, 2006, pp. 298 and 436, under no. A93, as one of 'numerose repliche o copie antiche'.

Doña Angeles Solar, Bilbao, by 1950, and by descent to the present owner.