Battle between a Centaur and a Triton

c. 1620-1640

Jusepe de Ribera

Artist, Spanish, 1591 - 1652

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (cut to platemark): 11.5 x 16.6 cm (4 1/2 x 6 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.12.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Brown 1973, no. 19, State (rejected attribution)


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Sir Peter Lely [1618-1680], London (Lugt 2092). A. Hyatt Mayor, New York, 1901 - 1980. (Jan Johnson, Montreal); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1973

  • Brown, Jonathan. Jusepe de Ribera: Prints and Drawings. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right in ink: A 79; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Ribera B XX 83 11; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: R6066

Markings

Sir Peter Lely (Lugt 2092)

Watermarks

fleur-de-lis with hills in circle surmounted with V (similar to Heawood 1625, Rome 1693) not in Picc

Wikidata ID

Q75426474


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