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Artworks
JUSEPE DE RIBERA, CALLED LO SPAGNOLETTO
Saint Jerome ReadingOil on canvas103.2 x 149.2 cm
40 5/8 x 58 3/4 inProvenance
Don Pedro Enrique de Bragança e Ligne Sousa Tavares Mascarenhas da Silva (1718–61), 1st Duke of Lafões, Marquess of Arronches, and 7th Earl of Miranda do Corvo, Portugal;
With Trafalgar Galleries, London, 1970;
Private collection, 1971;
With Trafalgar Galleries, London, 1975 (according to Nicolson, see Literature);
Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 6 July 2006, lot 49;
Angelo Guido Terruzzi – Terruzzi Family Foundation, Villa Regina Margherita, Milan;
Anonymous sale, Genoa, Wannenes, 5 March 2024, lot 118.
Exhibitions
Salamanca, Sala de Exposiciones de San Eloy; Valencia, Museo de Bellas Artes; and Seville, Museo de Bellas Artes, José de Ribera. Bajo el signo de Caravaggio (1613-1633), 2005, no. 2;
Milan, Palazzo Reale; and Vienna, Liechtenstein Museum, Caravaggio e l’Europa, 15 October 2005 – 9 July 2006, no. III.2.
Literature
B. Nicolson, The International caravaggesque movement, Oxford 1979, p. 19 (as circle of Dirck van Baburen);
B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, L. Vertova (rev.), Turin 1990, vol. I, pp. 57 and 102, and vol. III, reproduced fig. 990 (as possibly Wouter Crabeth, or circle of Dirck van Baburen);
N. Spinosa, in Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652, A.E. Pérez Sánchez and N. Spinosa (eds), exh. cat., Naples 1992, p. 55 (as attributed to Wouter Crabeth);
Possibly M. Maccherini, ‘Caravaggio e caravaggeschi nell'epistolario di Giulio Mancini’, doctoral diss., Università degli studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, 1994, p. 279;
Possibly M. Maccherini, ‘Caravaggio nel carteggio familiare di Giulio Mancini’, in Prospettiva, no. 86, April 1997, p. 92, n. 100;
Possibly M. Gallo, ‘Ulteriori dati sulla chiesa dei SS. Luca e Martina e sugli esordi di Jusepe de Ribera. Lo Spagnoletto, Reni, Borgianni, Gentileschi, Pedro Nuñez portoghese, Alessandro Fortuna ed altri artisti in nuovi documenti dell'Accademia di San Luca’, in Storia dell'Arte, vol. 93/94, 1998, pp. 317 and 328, n. 62;
N. Spinosa, Ribera. L'opera completa, Naples 2003, p. 232, n. 45, and p. 249, no. A3;
G. Papi, ‘Ancora su Ribera a Roma’, in Les Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Art, no. 1, 2003, pp. 68–69 and 73, n. 17, reproduced in colour p. 68, fig. 11;
G. Papi, in Caravaggio e l'Europa, da Caravaggio a Mattia Preti, V. Sgarbi (ed.), exh. cat., Milan 2005, p. 252, no. III.2, reproduced in colour p. 253;
N. Spinosa, in José de Ribera. Bajo el signo de Caravaggio (1613-1633), exh. cat., Salamanca 2005 ed., pp. 44–45, no. 2; Valencia-Sevilla 2005 ed., pp. 60–63, no. 2;
N. Spinosa, Ribera. L'opera completa, Naples 2006, p. 257, no. A4, reproduced, and p. 395, under no. C13;
G. Papi, Ribera a Roma, Soncino 2007, pp. 137–38, no. 11, reproduced in colour p. 75, plate XV;
N. Spinosa, Ribera. La obra completa, Madrid 2008, pp. 308–09, no. A11, reproduced, and p. 316, under no. A23;
G. Finaldi, in El Joven Ribera, J. Portùs and J. Milicua (eds), exh. cat., Madrid 2011, p. 124, under no. 10; and N. Spinosa, in Il giovane Ribera tra Roma, Parma e Napoli 1608-1624, J. Portùs and J. Milicua (eds), Italian edition, Naples 2011, p. 221;
A. Scarpa and M. Lupo, Fondazione Famiglia Terruzzi. Villa Regina Margherita. Guida al museo, Milan 2011, p. 56, reproduced p. 116, fig. 45.
