Auction on
16 June 2020 - 14:00 (CEST) -
Salle 15 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
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.
As soon as he saw the Daguerre auction house's discovery, Stéphane Pinta of Turquin expressed no doubts: "Ribera's Apostolados were conceived simply but effectively – and rapidly, too. According to Mancini, he could paint a Saint Jerome in only two days and a Judgment of Our Lord with ten figures in barely five. The artist's way of working directly from the model, with no preparatory drawings, gave his paintings a lively, spontaneous…
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