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Blind Old Beggar

Blind Old Beggar

Artist/Maker (Spanish, 1591–1652)
Dateca. 1632
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 49 × 40 1/16 in. (124.5 × 101.7 cm)
Frame: 58 × 48 1/8 × 3 1/4 in. (147.3 × 122.2 × 8.3 cm)
Credit LineR. T. Miller Jr. Fund
Object number1955.9
Status
On view
ProvenancePossibly in the collection of Dr. Joaquín Carvallo [1869-1936], Villandry, France (by 1923);¹ (his sale, Hotel de Ventes, Tours, France, 19 November 1953, no. 76); (Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York); purchased 1955 by the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH Notes: ¹August L. Mayer, "Jusepe Ribera" (Leipzig, 1923), p. 204 documents a painting of a blind sculptor in the Carvallo collection, although he doubts the attribution and suggests it may be by Luca Giordano. This may refer to the Allen painting, as its model is the same as that for Ribera's "Sense of Touch" (Prado Museum, no. 1112)Exhibition History
Paintings and Graphics by Jusepe de Ribera
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 5, 1957 - March 5, 1957 )
Treasures in America
  • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (January 13, 1961 - March 5, 1961 )
El Greco to Goya
  • John Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (February 10, 1963 - March 24, 1963 )
  • Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (April 19, 1963 - May 26, 1963 )
Treasures from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
  • Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (July 21, 1966 - September 11, 1966 )
Jusepe De Ribera, lo Spagnoleto, 1591-1652
  • Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (December 4, 1982 - February 6, 1983 )
Seven Hundred Years of Western Art
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 26, 2001 - June 2, 2002 )
From Baroque to Neoclassicism: European Paintings, 1625-1825
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 10, 2002 - June 9, 2003 )
Robert Henri and Spain, Face to Face. An Exhibition about Connoisseurship, Conservation, and Context
  • Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS (September 27, 2014 - January 4, 2015 )
Collections
  • European
  • On View
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