The Flagellation of Christ (known until the 1970s as Ecce Homo) is a oil on canvas painting by Jusepe de Ribera, from the start of his stay in Naples. A smaller autograph copy without the accompanying figure on the right is now in the Galleria Sabauda in Turin. Nicola Spinosa, Ribera. L'opera completa, Napoli, Electa, 2003, page 280
In 1622 a tailor and art collector left it and the rest of his collection to the Girolamini, Naples, where it still hangs. Maria Cristina Terzaghi (editor), Caravaggio Napoli, exhibition catalogue, Milano, Electa, 2019 It is next mentioned in 1692 by Carlo Celano as being in the church's sacristy—he also gave it its erroneous title of Ecce Homo. Nicola Spinosa, Ribera. L'opera completa, Napoli, Electa, 2003, page 275
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