Odd

Copy of "The Bearded Woman" by Jusepe Ribera (lo Spagnoletto).
This is a portrait of Magdalena Ventura aged 52 with her husband Felici de Amici who not surprisingly doesn't look too Felice. At 37 she grew a long, thick beard. Obviously Mr Gillette was not around then, but she still had 3 children.
The Duke of Medinaceli, who owns this house, inherited the painting from the Duke of Alcala, Fernando Afan de Ribera y Enriquez who had commissioned it when Viceroy of Naples.

The tiles look remarkably modern.

I include a sculpture of the man who was told to wash all the tiles in the house.Weiterlesen