Jusepe de Ribera

Spagnoletto, lo
Ribera, Jose de

Spanish, 1591 - 1652

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Spanish painter (1591–1652)

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Jusepe de Ribera, Equestrian Portrait of Don Juan de Austria, 1648, etching on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1950.14.744

Equestrian Portrait of Don Juan de Austria

Jusepe de Ribera · 1648 · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1950.14.744

A group of four men with pale skin, shown from the waist up, almost fill this square painting. Light pours onto the scene from the upper left and falls across the upturned face of the bearded, bare-chested man, Saint Bartholomew, who is situated with his back facing us and his arms spread wide. In the top right corner, his right wrist is lashed to a pole that extends off the top edge of the painting. His other arm is bent at the elbow near the lower left corner, and he holds that hand palm up. His profile, facing our left, is bright against the shadowed background. His mouth is slightly agape, and his eyebrows are raised as he looks up toward the light that bathes his lithe, muscular body. His long beard is streaked with gray, and he has receding black hair. A second, broad-shouldered man, draped in a brown cloak, stands facing us behind and just to our left of Saint Bartholomew. The younger man holds a knife in one hand resting against a black, rod-like sharpener held in the other. He turns his head to gaze at Saint Bartholomew, his eyes deep in shadow. He also has a furrowed brow and a craggy, ruddy complexion. Two more men stand behind him, to our left, filling the left side of the painting. The man on the far left has smooth skin, a trimmed beard, and short brown hair. He stands in profile looking to our right and wears a cranberry-red cloak. Barely visible beyond him, to our right, is a man wearing a gray-green hood hiding half his face. His features are loosely painted and faint, but he also looks up, either toward the young man or the light from above. All four are surrounded by deep shadows against a brown background.
Jusepe de Ribera, The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, 1634, oil on canvas, Gift of the 50th Anniversary Gift Committee, 1990.137.1

The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew

Jusepe de Ribera · 1634 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1990.137.1

Jusepe de Ribera, The Drunken Silenus, 1628, etching and engraving on laid paper, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund, 1974.23.1

The Drunken Silenus

Jusepe de Ribera · 1628 · etching and engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1974.23.1

Jusepe de Ribera, Calcografia di Roma, The Drunken Silenus, 1628, printed c. 1933-1934, etching and engraving printed in brown on heavy wove paper [restrike printed by the Regia Calcografia, Rome], Transferred from The Library of Congress, 1986.50.7

The Drunken Silenus

Jusepe de Ribera, Calcografia di Roma · 1628, printed c. 1933-1934 · etching and engraving printed in brown on heavy wove paper [restrike printed by the Regia Calcografia, Rome] ·  Accession ID  1986.50.7

Jusepe de Ribera, The Drunken Silenus, 1628, etching and engraving on laid paper, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2004.71.1

The Drunken Silenus

Jusepe de Ribera · 1628 · etching and engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2004.71.1

Jusepe de Ribera, The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, 1624, etching and engraving on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1980.45.1225

The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew

Jusepe de Ribera · 1624 · etching and engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1980.45.1225

Jusepe de Ribera, Saint Jerome Reading, c. 1624, etching with some engraving and drypoint on laid paper, Gift of Philip and Judith Benedict, 1997.88.4

Saint Jerome Reading

Jusepe de Ribera · c. 1624 · etching with some engraving and drypoint on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1997.88.4

Jusepe de Ribera, The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, 1624, etching on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1973.56.2

The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew

Jusepe de Ribera · 1624 · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1973.56.2

Jusepe de Ribera, Saint Jerome Reading, c. 1624, etching, engraving, and drypoint on laid paper, Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection), 1970.10.15

Saint Jerome Reading

Jusepe de Ribera · c. 1624 · etching, engraving, and drypoint on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1970.10.15

Jusepe de Ribera, Small Grotesque Head, 1622, etching on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 2003.26.2

Small Grotesque Head

Jusepe de Ribera · 1622 · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2003.26.2

Bibliography

1978

  • Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso and Nicolo Spinosa. L'opera completa del Ribera. Milan, 1978.

1982

  • Jusepe de Ribera lo Spagnoletto 1591-1652. Edited by Craig Felton and William B. Jordan. Exh. cat. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. Seattle, 1982.

1991

  • Felton, Craig. "Ribera's Early Years in Italy: the Martyrdom of St. Lawrence and the Five Senses." The Burlington Magazine 133 (1991): 71-81.

1992

  • Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso and Nicolo Spinosa. Jusepe de Ribera 1591-1652. Exh. cat. Castel Sant'Elmo, Certosa di San Martino, Cappella del Tesoro di San Gennaro, Naples; Museo del Prado, Madrid; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. All 3 cities,1992.

1996

  • De Grazia, Diane, and Eric Garberson, with Edgar Peters Bowron, Peter M. Lukehart, and Mitchell Merling. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 213-214.