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Jusepe de Ribera, artist
Spanish, 1591 - 1652
St. Jerome ReadingSopher 17th c. cat. #, circa 1624
Etching with engraving and drypoint
19.3 x 25.6 cm (image)
Loan from Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Sopher Collection L85.

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Artist Biography: Byname LO SPAGNOLETTO (Italian: "The Little Spaniard") Painter and printmaker, baptized 17 February 1591. Worked in Rome, leaving for Naples after the death of Caravaggio. Signature "HSP RBA" on several prints for "Hispanus Jusepe de Ribera". ~ ~Notable for his Baroque dramatic realism and depictions of religious and mythological subjects. ~ ~~~Reference: Bartsch, Adam. Le Peintre-graveur. vol. 20. W¸rzburg: 1920~Bellini, P. and M. Leach. Italian Masters of the Seventeenth Century. Vol. 44. New York: 1983, Abaris Books.~Brown, Jonathan. Jusepe di Ribera: Prints and Drawings. Princeton: 1973, The Princeton Art Museum~See: Sopher, Marcus. Seventeenth-Century Italian Prints. Stanford: 197 and Finaldi, Gabriele: *Documentary Appendix: The Life and Work of Jusepe de Ribera*in Jusepe de Ribera 1591-1652, exh. cat. by Alfonso E. PÈrez S·nchez and Nicola Spinosa, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York, 1992, pp. 231-255 (also in Spanish language version, Museo del Prado,Madrid, 1992, pp. 490-504.~~

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