Saint Jerome

Title

Saint Jerome

Draughtsman

• Unknown, 16th century

Period Produced

• 16th century

School

• Renaissance

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• Vergé paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• brush drawing

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• study after a copperplate engraving?

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Nicht bezeichnet

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Acquisition

Acquired in 1917

Genre

• historical narration
• depiction of a saint

Persons Shown

• Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus

Primary

• 11H(JEROME)9 the monk and hermit Jerome (Hieronymus); possible attributes: book, cardinal's hat, crucifix, hour-glass, lion, skull, stone - portrait of male saint
• 49N reading
• 25H112(+1) rocks (+ landscape with figures, staffage)

Alternative Attribution

• Philipp Uffenbach ? draughtsman; by note on mount
• after Lucas van Leyden inventor; by note on mount

Historic Attribution

• Lucas van Leyden draughtsman