Lot 80: Jusepe de Ribera, lo Spagnoletto (J tiva, Valencia 1591-1652 Naples)

Saint Jerome oil on canvas 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.) PROVENANCE Abb‚ Thu‚lin, Paris. LITERATURE A. P‚rez S nchez and N. Spinosa, L'opera completa del Ribera, Milan, 1978, no. 465 (as studio - see note below). EXHIBITION Paris, H“tel Charpentier, La Demeure Historique, Exposition d'Art Ancien Espagnol, 1925, no. 97. NOTES 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. SALESROOM 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).