An Old Man

ca. 1635

Jusepe de Ribera Spanish, 1590-1652

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European, Level 2, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title An Old Man

Artwork Date ca. 1635

Artist Jusepe de Ribera

Life Dates 1590-1652

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Spanish

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 21 1/2 × 19 inches (54.6 × 48.3 cm) Framed: 29 1/2 × 27 × 2 5/8 inches (74.9 × 68.6 × 6.7 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of James E. Scripps

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 89.72

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Provenance

1838, Louis Philippe, King of France, displayed in Galerie Espagnole, Musée du Louvre (Paris, France);
May 1853, (Christie and Manson, London, England) auction Louis Philippe, lot 316;
May 1853, purchased by Norton [for £120];
James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Notice des Tableaux de la Galerie Espagnole. Paris, 1838, no. 242.

Catalogue of the Pictures from the Celebrated Spanish Gallery of His Majesty the Late King Louis Philippe. Sales cat., Christie's and Manson. May 1853, London, no. 316.

Detroit Museum of Art Catalogue of the Scripps Collection of Old Masters. Detroit, 1889, no. 35.

"The Scripps Old Masters." The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152; p. 151 [as by Josef Ribera (Spagnoletto), “Head of an Old Man”].

Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern, Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, p. 30, no. 54 [as by Josef Ribera, called Spagnoletto, “Head of an Old Man”].

Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, p. 20.

Detroit Museum of Art Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. Detroit, 1910, p. 28, no. 31 (ill.).

Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 91, no. 91.

Freund, F.E.W. "The Universal Art of Ribera." International Studio, 1926, pp. 13-19.

The More Important Paintings and Sculptures in the Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit. Detroit, 1927, p. 20.

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 188 (ill.).

Valentiner, W.R. "An Erroneous Callot Attribution." Art in America 20 (1932): p. 114 (fig. 2).

Scheyer, E. Baroque Painting. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1937, pp. 14-15 (fig. 4).

Detroit Institute of Arts Paintings and Sculptures Illustrated. Detroit, 1943, p. 162.

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, pp. 109-110, no. 188.

Masterpieces of Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1949, p. 174.

Man and His Years. Exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, 1954, no. 41.

Exhibition of Paintings and Graphics by Jusepe de Ribera. Exh. cat., Allen Memorial Art Gallery, Oberlin College. Oberlin, 1957, cat. 16.

"Exhibition of Paintings and Graphics by Jusepe de Ribera." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 14, no. 2 (1957): p. 73, no. 1.

Gaya Nuño, J.A. La pintura española fuera de España. Madrid, 1958, p. 281, no. 2352.

Darby, D.F. "Ribera and the Wise Men." Art Bulletin 44, no. 4 (1962): p. 299 (fig. 12) [as fragment of The Philosopher Plato by Ribera].

El Greco to Goya. Exh. cat., John Herron Museum of Art and Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Indianapolis and Providence, 1963, mentioned under no. 71 [not in exhibition].

700 Years of Spanish Painting. Exh. cat., Cummer Gallery of Art. Jacksonville, 1965, cat. 30 (ill.).

Felton, C.M. "Jusepe de Ribera, A Catalogue Raisonné." Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh, 1971, pp. 416-7, no. x-13.

Omer Jr., Guy C. "A Reputed Portrait of Galileo by Ribera." Journal for the History of Astronomy 4, no. 11 (1973): pp. 194-195; p. 194.

Pérez Sánchez, A.E. and N. Spinosa. L'opera pittorica completa di Ribera. Milan, 1978, p. 128, no. 249 [as copy of an original].

Baticle, J. and C. Marinas. La Galerie Espagnole de Louis-Philippe au Louvre 1838-1848. Paris, 1981, pp. 162-163, no. 250.

d'Argencourt, L., and R. Diederen. "European Paintings of the 19th Century." Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings: Part Four. Cleveland, 1999, p. 441, (fig. 152b).

Jusepe de Ribera el Españoleto. Exh. cat., Museo Nacional de San Carlos. Mexico City, 2003, pp. 88-89; p. 188, cat. 9 (ill.).

Spinosa, Nicola. Ribera, L'opera completa. Naples, 2003, p. 362 [as a workshop copy.]

Tomasi, Lucia Tongiorgi and Alessandro Tossi. Il Cannocchiale e il pennello. Nuova Scienza e Nuova Arte Nell'Eta di Galileo. Exh. cat., Palazzo Blu. Pisa, Florence, and Milan, 2009, cat. no. 152.

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