Lot 676
  • 676

Théodule Ribot

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
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Description

  • Théodule Ribot
  • Job Berated by His Wife and Three Friends
  • signed Ribot (lower right)
  • ink and wash on paper
  • 10 1/8 by 12 1/4 in.; 25.7 by 31.1 cm.

Condition

The sheet has been laid down onto another larger sheet. The surface is in generally good condition overall. Framed under glass.
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Catalogue Note

As Ribot’s career as a painter and draughtsman evolved his work became increasingly more emotional, the forms of figures highly expressionistic as any continuation of a classical aesthetic was replaced by a very personal style. Working in various media – as here - Ribot’s drawing suggest his debt to earlier artists, especially those from the seventeenth century in Spain or Holland. This Biblical theme is typical of his later style; there is no hesitancy in accepting this work as by the artist. The handling of the medium, the compositional format and the signature all fully conform to what we now realize was Théodule Ribot’s manner in ink and wash. I knew the drawing from an old photograph and a photocopy made in a research library, probably at the National Gallery in Washington, DC., but nothing else, except that the catalogue of the 1887 Ribot exhibition at the Bernheim Jeune Gallery in Paris lists a work with the title Job, no. 90 of the catalogue, no description.