
Poppy Harvey-Jones
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Provenance
Demiami Collection, Germany
Their sale, Lepke, Berlin, 11 November 1913, lot 79
Sale, Gallerie Fischer, Lucerne, 9-11 September 1943, lot 735 (ill. pl. 12)
Literature
A. E. Pérez Sánchez, Caravaggio y el naturalismo español, Seville, 1973, exh. cat., under no. 40
N. Spinosa, L'opera completa del Ribera, Milan, 1978, p. 117, no. 158
N. Spinosa, L'opera completa del Ribera, Naples, 2003, p. 322, no. A237
N. Spinosa, Ribera. L'opera completa, Naples, 2006, p. 354, cat. no. A262, ill. p. 354
An unsigned version of the present work is at the Museo Bellas Artes Seville. It shows the Saint in the same position but with slight differences in the turn of the figure's head. An earlier pen and ink study now in the Achenbach Foundation of Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honour, San Francisco (see fig. 1) shows the similar torsion of the Saint's body and the contorted lower hand although the upper arms and head differ.