The Drunken Silenus, 1628

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (cut within platemark): 27.2 x 35.3 cm (10 11/16 x 13 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Brown 1973, no. 14, State i/iii

Accession Number

2004.71.1

Artists / Makers

Jusepe de Ribera (artist) Spanish, 1591 - 1652

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, at lower right in image: Joseph a Ribera Hisp. Valenti / Setaben f. Partenope / 1628; verso: at lower left in later hand in graphite: 2063

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: Julius Hofmann (Lugt 1264)

Provenance

Dr. Julius Hofmann [1840-1913], Vienna (Lugt 1264); (sale, Sotheby's London, 1 July 1992, no. 239). (Silvana Bareggi, Milan); purchased 2004 by NGA.

Associated Names

Hofmann, Julius, Dr.
Sotheby's, London
Trinity Fine Art Ltd.

Exhibition History

2004: Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

2018: Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Bibliography

1973: Brown, Jonathan. Jusepe de Ribera: Prints and Drawings. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973.