LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

23.43 in. (59.50 cm.) (height) by 17.91 in. (45.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated centre right: Jusepe de Ribera/ español F. 1637

Condition:

in a Spanish 18th century frame

Exhibited:

London, Spanish Art Gallery (Tomas Harris Ltd.),. From Greco to Goya , 1938, no. 9, reproduced;. The Arts Council of Great Britain, Exhibition of Spanish Paintings , Southampton, Derby, Leicester, Cardiff, Aberdeen, 1945-46, no. 16, reproduced; . London, National Gallery, Spanish Paintings , 11 February - 23 March 1947, no. 24, reproduced, pl. XXI; . Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, Spanish Paintings: From El Greco to Goya , 19 August - 8 September 1951, no. 33; . Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Stora spanska mästare , 12 December 1959 - 13 March 1960, no. 82; . Barnard Castle, Bowes Museum, Neapolitan, Baroque and Rococo Painting , l June - 12 August 1962, no. 7, reproduced; . Barnard Castle, Bowes Museum, Four Centuries of Spanish Painting , 17 June - 17 September 1967, no. 35; . London, Hayward Gallery, Salvator Rosa , 17 October - 23 December 1973, no. 113; . London, National Gallery, El Greco to Goya: The Taste for Spanish Paintings in Britain and Ireland , 16 September - 29 November 1981, no. 19, reproduced; . Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Jusepe de Ribera, lo Spagnoletto, 1591 - 1652 , 4 December 1982 - 6 February 1983, no. 20, reproduced in colour; . London, National Gallery, on loan 1991-1997 (L.583); . Naples, Castel Sant'Elmo, Jusepe de Ribera 1591 - 1652 , 27 February - 17 May 1992, no. 1.67, reproduced in colour; . Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, Ribera 1591-1652 , 2 June - 16 August 1992, no. 82, reproduced in colour; . New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jusepe de Ribera: 1591 - 1652 , 18 September - 29 November 1992, no. 46, reproduced in colour; . Cremona, Centro Culturale Santa Maria della Pietà, I cinque sensi nell'arte. lmmagini del sentire , 21 September 1996 - 12 January 1997, no. VI.4, reproduced in colour; . Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, Los Cinco sentidos y el arte , 27 February - 4 May 1997, no. VI.4, reproduced in colour; . Newcastle, Laing Art Gallery, on loan 27 July 1998 - 27 July 1999 (No. 1998.666); . London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Murillo: Scenes of Childhood , 14 February - 13 May 2001, no. 3, reproduced in colour

Literature:

Advertisement in. The Illustrated London News , 3 December 1938, p. 1035, reproduced;. Exhibition of Spanish Paintings , N. MacLaren (ed.), exh. cat., National Gallery, London 1947, no. 24, reproduced plate XXI; . Spanish Paintings: From El Greco to Goya , E.K. Waterhouse (ed.), exh. cat., National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1951, no. 33; . E. Harris, 'Spanish Painting from Morales to Goya in the National Gallery of Scotland', The Burlington Magazine , October 1951, vol. 93, p. 314 (as 'an unusually pleasant subject for this artist'); . J.A. Gaya Nuño, La pintura española fuera de España (historia y catalogo) , Madrid 1958, p. 279, no. 2318; . G. Kubler and M. Soria, Art and Architecture in Spain and Portugal and their American dominions, 1500 - 1800 , Pelican History of Art , 1959, p. 241, reproduced plate 123 (detail); . Stora spanska mästare , C. Nordenfalk (ed.), exh. cat., Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1959, no. 82; . J.A. Gaya Nuño, 'Peinture picaresque', L'Œil , no. 84, December 1961, p. 54; . Neapolitan, Baroque and Rococo Painting , T. Ellis (ed.), exh. cat., Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, 1962, no. 7, reproduced; . T. Crombie, 'Naples in the North', Apollo , July 1962, LXXVI, p. 396, reproduced fig. 2; . E. Harris, 'Exposición de pinturas y dibujos napolitanos en el Museo Bowes de Barnard Castle', in Archivio español de arte , vol. 36, 1963, pp. 131-33, reproduced; . E. Young in Four Centuries of Spanish Painting , exh. cat., Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, 1967, no. 35; . C. Felton, Jusepe de Ribera: A Catalogue Raisonné , Ph.D. Thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1971, vol. I, pp. 243-44, cat. no. A-54; . R. Causa, 'La pittura del Seicento a Napoli dal naturalismo al barocco', in Storia di Napoli , vol. V, part 2, 1972, reproduced fig. 279; . M. Kitson in Salvator Rosa , exh. cat., Hayward Gallery, London, 1973, pp. 68-69, no. 113; . T. Mullaly, 'Painting in Focus', in The Daily Telegraph , 6 March 1976, p. 11; . N. Spinosa in L'opera completa del Ribera , A.E. Pérez Sanchez and N. Spinosa (eds), Milan 1978, p. 111, no. 114, reproduced in colour, plate XXXIII; . F. Bologna, Gaspare Traversi, nell'illuminismo europeo , Naples 1980, pp. 52-53, reproduced fig. 32; . A. Braham in El Greco to Goya. The Taste for Spanish Paintings in Britain and Ireland , exh. cat., National Gallery, London 1981, p. 63, no. 19, reproduced fig. 71; . C. Felton in Jusepe de Ribera, lo Spagnoletto (1591 - 1652) , C. Felton and W.B. Jordan (eds), exh. cat., Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1982, pp. 160-61, no. 20, reproduced in black and white and in colour on p. 17; . M. Haraszti-Takacs, Spanish genre painting in the seventeenth century , Budapest 1983, pp. 27, 209, no. 171, reproduced plate 69; . F. Benito Doménech, Ribera 1591 - 1652 , Madrid 1991, p. 120, reproduced in colour on p. 122; . N. Spinosa in Jusepe de Ribera 1591 - 1652 , A.E. Pérez Sanchez and N. Spinosa (eds), exh. cat., Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples 1992, p. 223, no. 1.67, reproduced in colour on p. 225; . N. Spinosa in Ribera 1591 - 1652 , A.E. Pérez Sanchez and N. Spinosa (eds), exh. cat., Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 1992, p. 49, p. 314, no. 82, reproduced in colour on p. 316; . N. Spinosa in Jusepe de Ribera 1591 - 1652 , A.E. Pérez Sanchez and N. Spinosa (eds), exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992, p. 127, no. 46, reproduced in colour; and pp. 126-28 under nos 45 and 47; . C. Baker and T. Henry, The National Gallery Complete Illustrated Catalogue , 1995, p. 578, no. L.583, reproduced in colour; . I cinque sensi nell'arte. lmmagini del sentire , S. Ferino-Pagden (ed.), exh. cat., Centro culturale Santa Maria della Pietà, Cremona, 1996, p. 150, no. VI.4, reproduced in colour on p. 151; . Los Cinco Sentidos y el Arte , S. Ferino-Pagden (ed.), exh. cat., Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 1997, p. 178, no. VI.4, reproduced in colour on p. 179; . M. de Cervantes, Exemplary Stories , transl. L. Lipson, Oxford 1998, reproduced in colour on the cover; . M. Scholz-Hänsel, Jusepe de Ribera 1591-1652 , Cologne 2000, p. 122, reproduced in colour fig. 108; . N. Spinosa, Ribera, L'opera completa , Naples 2003, pp. 174, 243 n. 129 and 305, no. A182, reproduced in black and white and in colour as a detail on p. 131 and on the cover; . N. Spinosa, 'La pittura napoletana con scene di genere', in Gaspare Traversi, napoletani del '700 tra miseria e nobiltà , N. Spinosa (ed.), exh. cat., Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples 2003, p. 14, reproduced on p. 15; . Murillo: Scenes of Childhood , X. Brooke and P. Cherry (eds), exh. cat., Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 2001, p. 27 and p. 84, no. 3, reproduced in colour p. 85; . Murillo, Kinderleben in Sevilla , X. Brooke and P. Cherry (eds), exh. cat., German ed., Alte Pinakothek, Munich 2001, p. 45; . N. Spinosa. Ribera. L'opera completa , Naples 2006, 2nd ed., pp. 174, 243 n. 129 and 334, no. A 204, reproduced in black and white and in colour as a detail on p. 131; . N. Spinosa, Ribera. La obra completa , Madrid 2008, pp. 207, 295, n. 125 and 420, no. A 225, reproduced in black and white and in colour as a detail on p. 152; . J. Milicua, 'Los Cinco sentidos', in El joven Ribera , exh. cat., Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2011, p. 146, reproduced in colour p. 147, fig. 64; . J. Portús, Ribera , Barcelona 2011, p. 95, reproduced in colour fig. 71

Provenance:

Private collection, Paris, until 1930;. With Spanish Art Gallery, London (Tomas Harris Ltd.); . Where acquired by Mr and Mrs F.A. Drey, London, on 23 March 1937; . Thence by descent to their granddaughter; . By whom sold ('The Property of a Lady'), London, Sotheby's, 3 December 1997, lot 54; . Acquired in 1998 for the present collection