JUSEPE DE RIBERA, CALLED LO SPAGNOLETTO | JOB ON THE ASH HEAP

Property from a Private European Collection
JUSEPE DE RIBERA, CALLED LO SPAGNOLETTO
Játiva, Valencia 1591 - 1652 Naples
JOB ON THE ASH HEAP

oil on canvas
55⅛ by 73⅞ in.; 140 by 187.7 cm.

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Provenance:
Probably Fernando Enríquez Afán de Ribera (1583-1637), 3rd Duke of Alcalá, viceroy of Naples from 1629-31, by whom presumably commissioned from the artist, and then sold in Genoa in 1637 with other paintings from his collection ("quadro grande de Job");

Prince Marcantonio Doria (1572-1651), Genoa, (by whom probably acquired from the above sale);

By descent to his son Prince Nicolò Doria (1599-1688);

By descent through his brother's children to Giuseppe Doria (1730-1816), Genoa;

By descent through a cadet branch of the family to Giovanni Carlo Doria d'Angri (1788-1854), Naples1;

Acquired by the ancestors of the present owners in the mid-19th century, and thence by descent.