Measurements: 114.5 x 97 cm

Epoch: seventeenth century
This painting is signed on the paper Euclid is holding: “L. Jordan…” The author, influenced by Caravaggesque painters, worked in Naples and was a pupil of Ribera.
After his death, he moved first to Rome and then to Venice in 1664, where he refined his style, making it more vibrant.
This Venetian period is the one to which we attribute the work, probably commissioned by a local collector, as was the case with the paintings preserved in Berlin.
The artist also worked for the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice, for important patrons in Naples, Padua and Florence. From 1692 to 1702 he was court painter to Charles II of Spain, producing splendid decorative cycles for Toledo Cathedral and the Palace of Good Retreat in Madrid.
Bibliography: Luca Giordano – The Complete Works. Oreste Ferrari and Giuseppe Scavizzi 2000