Saint John the Baptist

Artist Jusepe de Ribera Spanish, 1591–1652, active in Naples 1616–1652

Datecirca 1624

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions70 3/4 x 50 7/8 in. (179.7 x 129.2 cm)
Frame: 79 1/4 x 59 1/4 in. (201.3 x 150.5 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.183

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ProvenanceA. W. Leatham, London; with F. Kleinberger & Co., Inc., New York; sold to NCMA, 1951.
Published ReferencesAugust L. Mayer, Jusepe de Ribera (Leipzig: 1923), 23.

Life (December 10, 1956), illus.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no 217, illus.(b-w).

Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 14, no. 2 (1957), cat. no. 6, illus.

Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, La pintura española fuera de España (Madrid: 1958), cat. no. 2415.

Craig Felton and William B. Jordan, eds., Jusepe de Ribera, lo Spagnoleto (exhibition catalogue) (Fort Worth: Kimbell Art Museum, 1982), cat. no. 31, illus.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed. Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 220.

Edward J. Sullivan, Catalogue of Spanish Paintings (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), cat. no. 22, illus. (b-w) 74, also mentioned xi.

Introduction to the Collections. rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 210.

Richard P. Townsend and Roger Ward, Caravaggio & Tanzio: The Theme of St. John the Baptist (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Philbrook Museum of Art, 1995), 38, 40, illus. 38.

Rebecca Martin Nagy, entry for St. John the Baptist, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 137, illus. (color).

Dennis P. Weller, et al, Sinners and Saints, Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers, (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998) 60, illus, b-w (catalogue only, not in show).

John the Baptist and the Baroque Vision (exhibition catalogue) (Greenville, SC, Bob Jones University Museum and Gallery, 2001), 56, illus. (color) 57.

Nicola Spinosa, Ribera (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), cat. no. A238, illus. (b-w).

Rebecca Martin Nagy, entry for St. John the Baptist, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 282, illus. (color) 283.

Lisandra Estevez, "'The Spanish Zeuxis:' Jusepe Ribera's Image in Baroque and Modern Poetry and Plays" in Paragone: Past and Present (Leiden: Brill, 2017), illus. (color)Exhibition HistoryLondon, Grafton Galleries, "Exhibition of Spanish Masters," 1913-14, cat. no. 185.

Oberlin, OH, Allen Memorial Art Museum, "Exhibition of Paintings and Graphics by Jusepe de Ribera," February 5-March 5, 1957, cat. no. 6, illus.

Fort Worth, TX, Kimbell Art Museum, "The Paintings of Jusepe de Ribera," December 4, 1982-February 6, 1983, cat. no. 31, illus.

Greenville, SC, Bob Jones University Museum and Gallery, "John the Baptist and the Baroque Vision," January 16-February 28, 2001, cat. 56, illus. (color) 57.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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