OLD MASTERS, COLONIAL ART, JEWELS & WATCHES
Lote 306:
Oil on canvas, canvas measurements: 175 x 129 cm. Measurements with its period frame: 207 x 162 cm. Origin: important private collection, Madrid. Francisco Ribalta (Solsona, Lérida, 1565-Valencia, 1628) was a Spanish baroque painter, trained in the orbit of Escurialense painting and established in 1599 in Valencia, where at a very early date he cultivated a naturalism of a personal style and intense chiaroscuro that would become the hallmark of the Valencian school of the 17th century. Located chronologically at the origins of Spanish baroque painting, Ribalta’s work constitutes the link between the latest mannerism and the new baroque currents. Immersed in the religious spirit of the Counter-Reformation, which he fully shared, he focused the visionary motifs of his painting with a naturalistic technique, in such a way that the supernatural seemed to take place in the most credible and closest way to the viewer, whom he tried to put in contact. direct with the miraculous event thanks to the simplicity of his compositions, without superfluous embellishments. Bibliography: Benito Domenech, Fernando and Vallés Borrás, Vicent Joan (1989). “A trial of Francisco Ribalta in 1618.” Bulletin of the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (69): 143-168. Repainting and some restorations, requires cleaning. Provenance: important private collection, Madrid.
