Lot 230: JERÓNIMO JACINTO ESPINOSA COCENTAINA, ALICANTE BAPT 1600 - 1667 VALENCIA

THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN NOBLE FAMILY

SAINT LAWRENCE

measurements note
175 by 112 cm.; 68 3/4 by 44 in.

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Private collection, Alicante;
The Casa Rojas Collection, Madrid, by the early part of the 20th Century;
Thence by family descent to the present owners.

LITERATURE

A.E. Pérez Sánchez, Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa, Madrid 1972, pp. 39-40, reproduced plate 27.

NOTE

This and the following lot were traditionally attributed to Juan de Ribalta, until correctly published by Pérez Sánchez (see Literature) in 1972 as by the hand of Ribalta's fellow Valencian painter Jerónimo Jacinto Espinosa. The author describes both paintings as:

'Muy bien conservados y restaurados de reciente, lo que permite apreciar bien su rico y jugoso colorido... quizás de lo más hermoso que conservamos de su mano'.

We are grateful to Dr. Fernando Benito Doménech for confirming the attribution to Espinosa on the basis of photographs.