FRANCISCO RIBALTA (Solsona, Lérida, 1565-Valencia, 1628)."Christ crucified".Oil on canvas.Size: 81,5 x 65 cm.Certificate of authenticity issued by Vicente Aguilera Cerni in 1973 is attached.Catalan of origin, his first formation was made in the environment of El Escorial at the sight of works and Spanish and Italian artists who worked there, capturing the most significant novelties of his art. He thus developed an eclectic style that would come to combine the rhetoric of Cincinato, the daring foreshortenings of Tibaldi or the gravity of Bartolomé Carducho, with the dramatism of Navarrete and the chiaroscuro play of light of the best Cambiaso, aspects that emerge undisguised in his production. In his early years he practiced his profession in Madrid, between 1585 and 1598, where he painted religious works and portraits. In 1599 he moved to Valencia, probably encouraged by the artistic demands of the patriarch Archbishop Juan de Ribera. He remained in Valencia for the rest of his life, working intensely and giving his style an increasingly personal air that in his maturity reached the highest levels of quality in the direction of naturalism.In the present case and, according to the certificate issued by Vicente Aguilera Cerni, it is a canvas from the early seventeenth century, representing a Crucified Christ with a reinforced frame of the time. The work comes from Mr. Llácer's ancestors, being unknown any other origin previous to the family tradition. It is a work of superb workmanship, in perfect state of preservation, having been restored around 1973, the year in which the certificate was issued. Today it shows craquelures in accordance with the time elapsed since the restoration of this work was carried out. This is a masterful piece of chiaroscuro, stripped of mannerist residues, and therefore attributed to Francisco Ribalta.