Enriching 1800s Jusepe de RIBERA Etching "The Poet" ORIGINAL Durand FRAMED COA

Description: --> Four Centuries of the world's finest artists from our collection to yours --> Thank you for visiting... Please feel free to ask any questions you might have about this work and we will answer promptly.International bidders are always welcome to bid and we combine shipping on all orders. --> Artist: Jusepe de Ribera (José de Ribera, Lo Spagnoletto "The little Spaniard") (Spanish, 1591 – 1652) Title: The Poet Medium: Antique etching on laid paper after the original by Renowned Master Engraver Amand Durand (1831-1905)Year: 1880 Reference: Bartsch 10 Condition: ExcellentDimensions: Image size 5 1/2 x6 7/8 inches. Framed dimensions: Approximately 15 x 16 inches. Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials. Additional notes: This is an original Amand Durand print from the 1800's. Prints of old masters by Amand Durand have gotten quite expensive. Durands plates were so good that many of the etchings and engravings that he made were sold as the original etchings by Rembrandt, Durer, Goya, Rubens and other old Masters. Extra Information: Dressed in voluminous robes, crowned with laurel, and leaning on a stone with head in hand, The Poet is one of Ribera's most striking images made early in the artist's career. The iconography, a synthesis of the attributes of Melancholy and Poetry, has been explored in detail by scholars, who have found literary parallels ranging from verses by Walther von der Vogelweide (1170?–1230) to works by Petrarch and Lorenzo de' Medici. Another suggestion that the poet is Virgil seems plausible, especially since his tomb was traditionally thought to be in Naples. Generally identified with a columbarium, or dovecote mausoleum, above the 'Grotto' or tunnel of Posilipo, the purported burial place of the famous poet was a tourist attraction beginning at least in the sixteenth century. A well-known legend had it that on top of the tomb grew a bay tree that continued to blossom over the centuries while its roots forced their way through the stone, causing cracks to appear. Artist Biography: José de Ribera, José also spelled Jusepe, Josef, or Giuseppe, byname Lo Spagnoletto (Italian: “The Little Spaniard”) (baptized February 17, 1591, Játiva, Spain—died September 2, 1652, Naples [Italy]) Spanish painter and printmaker, noted for his Baroque dramatic realism and his depictions of religious and mythological subjects. He was born in Spain but spent most of his life in Italy. Little is known of his life in Spain, though he is said by the painter and biographer Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco to have received his first training there under Francisco Ribalta. It is not known when he went to Italy, but there is evidence that as a young man he worked in Parma and Rome. In 1616 he married in Naples, then under Spanish rule, where he remained the rest of his life. In 1626 he signed as a member of the Roman Academy of St. Luke and in 1631 as a knight of the Papal Order of Christ, although he always retained his Spanish identity. The whole of Ribera’s surviving work appears to belong to the period after he settled in Naples. His large production comprises mainly religious compositions, along with a number of classical and genre subjects and a few portraits. He did much work for the Spanish viceroys, by whom many of his paintings were sent to Spain. He was also employed by the Roman Catholic Church and had numerous private patrons of various nationalities. His paintings were widely imitated and copied in Spain. From 1621 onward there are numerous signed, dated, and documented works from Ribera’s hand. Ribera, José de: The Martyrdom of St. Philip Ribera’s paintings are austere or gloomy in mood and can be rather dramatic in their presentation. The chief elements of Ribera’s style, tenebrism (dramatic use of light and shadow) and naturalism, are used to emphasize the mental and physical suffering of penitent or martyred saints or tortured gods. Realistic detail, often horrific, is accentuated by means of coarse brush marks on thick pigment to represent wrinkles, beards, and flesh wounds. Ribera’s technique is characterized by sensitivity of outline and the sureness with which he rendered the changes from brilliant light to darkest shadow. In addition to paintings, Ribera was one of the few 17th-century Spanish artists to produce numerous drawings, and his etchings were among the finest produced in Italy and Spain during the Baroque period. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and is Fully Guaranteed to be Certified as Described Framing Any framing included in a listing is double matted and framed in a solid wood moulding. We can also frame any pieces not listed as such. Please contact us for pricing. 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Location: Cape Coral, Florida

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