José de Ribera (1591-1652)
Head of Silenus (fragment of The Visit of Bacchus to Icarius)
Oil on canvas
47 x 36.5 cm
José de Ribera (1592-1652)
Philosopher
Oil on canvas
124 x 98.5 cm
Provenance
Private collection. Madrid, Spain.
The painting by my inspection, which represents the philosopher Crates, is an autographed work by José de Ribera carried out between 1636 and 1637 by its tight stylistic affinities, by the cutting of light and shadow, producing anatomical, somatic and expressive details, such as the treatment of clothes and books in the foreground, together with the series of philosophers of Antiquity by the painter, commissioned by prince Carlo Eusebius of Liechtenstein, by imitation of the series of philosophers painted by Ribera between 1629 and 1631 for the Duke of Alcalá, Vice King of Naples.
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