The Penitent Saint Jerome

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions 100.7 x 73.7 cm 39 5/8 x 29 in

Signed and dated Monogrammed (lower left): JR a

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Provenance

Madame de Magnanville;

Her sale (Lugt 83654), Versailles, Hôtel des Ventes, 16 – 17 May 1922, lot 10, as ‘Ribera (José, dit l’Espagnolet)’;

Private collection, France;

Sale (‘The Property of a Belgian Collector’), London, Christie’s, 10 December 2003, lot 57;

With Jean Luc Baroni Ltd, London, from whom acquired by the present owner.

Literature

N. Spinosa, Ribera: l’opera completa, Naples 2003, p. 290, cat. no. A130 (ill.).

N. Spinosa, ‘San Jerónimo meditando’, in José de Ribera. Bajo el signo de Caravaggio (1613-1633), exh. cat., Salamanca 2005, cat. no. 21, pp. 82-83 (ill.).

N. Spinosa, ‘San Jerónimo meditando’, in José de Ribera. Bajo el signo de Caravaggio (1613-1633), exh. cat., Valencia 2005, cat. no. 22, pp. 110-113 (ill.) with a detail of the head and shoulders over two pages and a further colour detail on p. 57.

N. Spinosa, Ribera: L’opera completa, Naples 2006, p. 291, cat. no. A79 (ill.).

N. Spinosa, Ribera: La obra completa, Madrid 2008, p. 363, cat. no. A99 (ill.).

Exhibitions / Fairs

Salamanca, Sala de Exposiciones de San Eloy, José de Ribera. Bajo el signo de Caravaggio (1613-1633), April – June 2005, no. 21;

Seville, Museo de Bellas Artes, José de Ribera. Bajo el signo de Caravaggio (1613-1633), September – October 2005, no. 22.

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