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LUCA GIORDANO (NAPLES 1634-1705)
Un ermite pénitent (Saint Jean Chrysostome ?) et groupe de figures (recto) ; Moine portant un enfant (verso)
numéroté ‘600.94’ (en bas à droite) et ‘Jordan fecit’ (verso)
plume et encre brune, lavis brun (recto) ; pierre noire (verso) sur papier bleu, filigrane blason abeille surmonté de trois cercles
18 x 27 cm (7 1/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
Provenance
Vente Christie’s, New York, 10 janvier 1996, lot 139.
Collectionneur anonyme (marque ‘FB’ avec feuille de ginkgo biloba, pas dans Lugt) (sur le montage).
Literature
G. Scavizzi, ‘New drawings by Luca Giordano’, Master Drawings, XXXVII, n° 2, 1999, p. 135, n° 42.
D. Ekserdjian, ‘Drawings from Portugal’, Apollo, CLIII, février 2001, p. 56.
Exhibited
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Lisbonne, Centro Cultural de Belém, et Porto, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, European Master Drawings from Portuguese Collections, 2000, n° 56 (catalogue par N. Turner).
Madrid, Musée du Prado, Dibujos de Maestros Europeos en las Colecciones Portuguesas, 1500-1800, 2002, n° 35 (catalogue par N. Turner).
Post lot text
LUCA GIORDANO, A PENITENT HERMIT WITH FIGURES (?) (RECTO); MONK HOLDING A CHILD (VERSO), PEN AND BROWN INK (VERSO), BROWN WASH (RECTO); BLACK CHALK (VERSO), ON BLUE PAPER
This sheet, with studies of a hermit kneeling and of two women with children, can be compared with a drawing by Luca Giordano in Avignon (inv. 996-7-305; see S. Béguin, M. Di Giampaolo and P. Malgouyres, Disegni della donazione Marcel Puech al Museo Calvet di Avignone, Naples, 1998, no. 100, ill.). On both sheets, the artist sketched the figures with pen and ink, yet the figures in the Avignon drawing are larger and the composition more clearly developed. The hermit saint can be identified with Saint John Chrysostom, as has been suggested by David Ekserdjian (op. cit., p. 56, n. 3), and the scene an episode of his life.