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JUSEPE DE RIBERA, CALLED LO SPAGNOLETTO (1591–1652)

Saint John the Baptist

Year c. 1635 – 40
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 180 x 124 cm 70 7/8 x 48 7/8 in

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Provenance

Romano Avezzano collection, Eboli;

Private collection, Florence.
Literature

P. Leone de Castris, in Civiltà del Seicento a Napoli, exh. cat., I, Naples 1984, p. 480, no. 2257 (as Massimo Stanzione);

P. Leone de Castris, in La Quadreria dei Girolamini, (eds.) P. Leone de Castris and R. Middione, Naples 1986, p. 158 (as Massimo Stanzione);

S. Schütze, in Massimo Stanzione. L’opera completa, (eds.) S. Schütze & Th. Willette, Naples 1992, pp. 246, no. B3, and 398 (as Massimo Stanzione, under ‘Works of Dubious Attribution’);

G. Porzio, in Sollevando il velo del tempo. Dipinti del Cinque e Seicento, (ed.) G. Porzio, exh. cat., Naples 2015, pp. 40 – 47, no. 6;

G. Porzio, in Old Masters in Naples: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Paintings, (ed.) G. Porzio, exh. cat., Naples 2019, pp. 26 – 35, no. 3.

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