A Dapper Old Chap By Jusepe de Ribera

Result EUR1,820,000

Published on 25 June 2020, by Anne Doridou-Heim

Auction on 16 June 2020 - 14:00 (CEST) - Salle 15 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

This unusual painting by Neapolitan artist Jusepe de Ribera found a second youth and broke a French record.

José de Ribera (1591-1652), Un philosophe : l’heureux géomètre (A Philosopher: the... A Dapper Old Chap By Jusepe de Ribera

José de Ribera (1591-1652), Un philosophe : l’heureux géomètre (A Philosopher: the Happy Surveyor), oil on canvas, 100 x 75.5 cm.
Result: €1,820,000

It took experts a long time and plenty of detective work to trace the history of this painting by Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652). A set of converging factors led a Swedish gallery to stay in the bidding and take away The Philosopher: the Happy Geometer…

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A New Ribera on the Market

After Cimabue, Artemisia and the Master of Vyšší Brod, Paris is continuing the recent spate of discoveries with this new Ribera unearthed by Bertrand de Cotton and Benoît Derouineau in a large house in western France.