Currently not on view
Five Men in Oriental Costume,
ca. 1637
Jusepe de Ribera, 1591–1652; born Xàtiva, Spain; died Naples, Italy; active Naples and Rome, Italy
2002-98
Information
Title
Five Men in Oriental Costume
Dates
ca. 1637
Maker
Medium
Red chalk
Dimensions
22.3 x 21.8 cm (8 3/4 x 8 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund and Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2002-98
Inscription
in brown ink, lower left: Spagnoletto
in brown ink, on verso upper right: Spagnoletto | Nº7
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamp in black ink, lower right: PM [in oval] [Lugt 3561]
Culture
Materials
Subject
Lt.-Col. William Stirling of Keir, later Sir William Stirling-Maxwell; his sale Sotheby & Co., London, Oct. 21, 1963, lot 23 (to J.S. Crawley); Mathias Polakovits, Paris and New York, stamp, [Lugt 3561]
- Frits Lugt, Les marques de collections de dessins & d'estampes: marques estampillées et écrites de collections particulières et publiques: marques de marchands, de monteurs et d'imprimeurs: cachets de vente d'artistes décédés: marques de graveurs apposées après le tirage des planches : timbres d'édition, etc., (Amsterdam: Vereenigde drukkerijen; La Haye: Nijhoff, 1921)., Lugt no. 3561
- Catalogue of important Old Master drawings, (London: Sotheby's, 1963)., lot 23
- Jonathon Brown, "The Prints and Drawings of Ribera", in Craig Felton and William B. Jordan, eds., Jusepe de Ribera, lo Spagnoletto, 1591-1652, (Fort Worth, TX: Kimbell Art Museum, 1982). , p. 82 (illus.)
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2002," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 62 (2003): p. 107-161., p. 136
- Lisa A. Banner, Spanish Drawings in the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2012)., p. 10, cat. no. 3; p. 11 (illus.)
