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Giovan Battista Langetti

Giovan Battista Langetti belonged to the tenebrosi working in seventeenth-century Venice. Originally from Genoa, he was present in the lagoon city during the 1650s and attracted Marco Boschini’s attention by 1660. His painting combines forceful contrasts of light and shade with strongly individualised bodies, bringing together elements associated with Caravaggio, Ribera and Tintoretto.

The Vision of Saint Jerome, painted around 1660 and held by the Cleveland Museum of Art, gives this intensity a striking form. An angel sounds a trumpet while the saint covers his ears; dramatic lighting reinforces the figures’ physical presence. Isaac Blesses Jacob, in the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu, presents another biblical episode from Langetti’s work in the second half of the century.

This profile brings together identity references for Giovan Battista Langetti and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.

Documented auction references

1auction reference

1auction house

1documented result with a price

Lempertz

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Works recorded at auction

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Lempertz · Lot 1079

Herkules

Oil on canvas

Original catalogue wording

Herkules
Öl auf Leinwand

Auction date : 2019-11-16

Published result : 24800 EUR

Including buyer’s premium

Estimate : 20000

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Sources and references

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AGORHA · Reference link only; no institutional text or image copied.
ICCD-ArCo · CC-BY-4.0; Ministero della Cultura / ICCD-ArCo
ICCD-ArCo · CC-BY-4.0; Ministero della Cultura / ICCD-ArCo. Reference link only; no image copied.
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Profile updated : 2026-10-23