Ribera
Darkness and light
From 5 November 2024
to 25 February 2025
Petit Palais
Avenue Winston-Churchill
75008 Paris
After The Underworld of the Baroque, Rome of Vice and Misery, in 2015, and Luca Giordano (1634-1705), the Triumph of Neapolitan Painting, in 2019-2020, the Petit Palais presents the first French retrospective dedicated to Jusepe de Ribera, a great 17th-century painter of Spanish origin who made his entire career in Italy.
The exhibition “Ribera. Darknes and light” retraces his entire work thanks to the latest scientific discoveries that have expanded the corpus of his early years with a set of paintings previously attributed to the ‘Master of the Judgment of Solomon’.
It covers the two main periods of his career, his stay in Rome and then in Naples, and aims to demonstrate the major and pioneering role of the artist in the interpretation of Caravaggio.
Jusepe de Ribera Vénus et Adonis 1637
Oil on canvas, 179×262 cm.
Galerie Corsini, Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Rome.
© Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Ministero della Cultura.
This retrospective features around a hundred paintings, drawings, and engravings borrowed from numerous international museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Prado (Madrid), the Borghese Gallery (Rome), the Museo di Capodimonte (Naples), the Palazzo Pitti (Florence), the British Museum (London), as well as French ones like the Louvre, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, and many others.
Jusepe de Ribera Saint Jérôme et l’ange du Jugement dernier, 1626
Oil on canvas, 262×164 cm.
Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples.
© Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte.
