Jusepe de Ribera 1588-1656

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

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Description

Jusepe de Ribera
the drunken silenus (bartsch 3; brown 14)
269 by 345mm; 10 5/8 by 13 9/16 in

Etching, 1628, a fine impression of the second state (of three), on paper with a Bird (?) in Circle watermark, trimmed just within the borderline, repaired lower edge and backed with a thin sheet of Japan paper

Catalogue Note

The composition is an adaptation of Ribera's painting of 1626, now in Naples, Capodimonte. Ribera's signature records the Latin names of the country, province and town of his birth -Hispanus (Spain), Valenti (Valencia), Setaben (Jávita)- and the Greek name of the place where the print was made, Partenope (Naples).