From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O’Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings

From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O’Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings

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Jusepe de Ribera, called lo Spagnoletto

The Lamentation of Christ

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January 27, 09:35 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

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Jusepe de Ribera, called lo Spagnoletto

Játiva, Valencia 1591 - 1652 Naples

The Lamentation of Christ


Pen and brown ink on blue-gray paper, within brown ink framing lines;

bears the remains of an old attribution in brown ink, lower left: Fapresto(?) and bears numbering in brown ink on the old backing: D/.6.

129 by 169 mm; 5 by 6 5/8 in

Bears unidentified collector's numbering (L.3178, on old backing);
possibly Giovanni Piancastelli (1845-1926)1;
sale, London, Christie's, 29 November 1983, lot 84;
with Spencer Samuels, New York,
where acquired 1984
G. Finaldi, 'Aspects of the Life and Work of Jusepe de Ribera, 1591-1652,' (PhD diss, London, Courtauld Institute of Art), 1995, no. 15;
Ribera: la Piedad, exh. cat., Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2003, pp.23-25, fig. 4;
G. Finaldi, Jusepe de Ribera, The Drawings, Catalogue raisonné, Madrid/Dallas 2016, pp. 122-3, cat. 34