Description

Man with beard holds a skull

Made by Charles Jacque after Jusepe de Ribera.

Medium: Etching on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 12.5 x 13.2 cm (4.92 x 5.2 inch). Image size: 11.2 x 11.9 cm. (4.41 x 4.69 inch).

Condition: good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

MAN-BEARD-SKULL | PCO-C44-32

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Source: unknown, to be determined.

Biography engraver: Charles-?mile Jacque (1813-1894) was a French painter of Pastoralism and engraver who was, with Jean-Fran?ois Millet, part of the Barbizon School. He first learned to engrave maps when he spent seven years in the French Army.

Biography artist: Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652) was a Spanish painter and printmaker. Ribera, Francisco de Zurbar?n, Bartolom? Esteban Murillo, and the singular Diego Vel?zquez, are regarded as the major artists of Spanish Baroque painting. Referring to a series of Ribera exhibitions held in the late 20th century, Philippe de Montebello wrote “If Ribera’s status as the undisputed protagonist of Neapolitan painting had ever been in doubt, it was no longer. Indeed, to many it seemed that Ribera emerged from these exhibitions as not simply the greatest Neapolitan artist of his age but one of the outstanding European masters of the seventeenth century.” Jusepe de Ribera has also been referred to as Jos? de Ribera, Josep de Ribera, and Lo Spagnoletto (“the Little Spaniard”) by his contemporaries, early historians, and biographers.