Landscape with the Penitence of Saint Jerome
1553
Artist, Netherlandish, c. 1525/1530 - 1569
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
Overall: 23.2 x 33.6 cm (9 1/8 x 13 1/4 in.)
support: 33.1 x 42 cm (13 1/16 x 16 9/16 in.) -
Accession
1972.47.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Munz 1961, no. 22
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Friedrich Wilhelm Klever [1846 - 1930], Cologne? (his sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 18-19 January 1892, no. 11). Prince of Liechtenstein; Dr. Felix Somary, Zurich; (William H. Schab, New York); purchased 1972 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1974
NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 39.
1978
Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 29.
1988
The Pastoral Landscape: The Legacy of Venice, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988-1989, no. 47, fig. 103.
1999
Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the Time of Bellini, Dürer, and Titian, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 1999-2000, no. 110, repro.
2001
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2001, no. 11, repro.
2018
Bruegel: The Hand of the Master, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 2018-2019, no. 4.
Bibliography
1961
Munz, Ludwig. Pieter Bruegel, The Drawings. Complete ed. Translated from the German by Luke Hermann. Greenwich, CT: Phaidon Publishers; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1961.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 661, no. 1043, color repro.
Inscriptions
lower left: [1]553; lower center: BRUEGEL; in later hand, lower center on mount: P.Brueghel, d A; vertical along left edge verso: L.NK; lower right verso: Pierre Breughel, Dit le vieux; lower left verso: 170D / CS
Wikidata ID
Q64619644