Saint Jerome Reading in the Wilderness, 1520/1525

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink on brown laid paper (laid down on early blue paper album sheet)

Dimensions

overall (approximate): 30.7 × 21.6 cm (12 1/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1973.52.1

Artists / Makers

Domenico Campagnola (artist) Venetian, before 1500 - 1564

Image Use

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Inscription

in later hand, lower right: M. Tizian; upper center verso sideways: S.T. no.5; upper center verso: no.44

Provenance

Possibly Padre Resta, Milan; part of the so-called "Borghese Album;" private collection, Lyon; M. de Marignane, Paris; (H. Shickman Gallery, New York); NGA purchase in 1973.

Associated Names

Shickman Gallery, Herman

Exhibition History

1974: NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 23.

1974: Venetian Drawings from American Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and others (International Exhibitions Foundation), 1974-1975, no. 9 (Terisio Pignati).

1976: Disegni di Tiziano e della sua cerchia, Fondazione Cini, Venice, 1976, no. 74 and mentioned under no. 52 (Konrad Oberhuber with the assistance of Hilliard Goldfarb).

1988: Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 16.

Bibliography

1974: Pignatti, Terisio. Venetian Drawings from American Collections. Washingon, 1974: 10

1974: Recent Acquistiions and Promised Gifts: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974: 63.

1976: Disegni di Tiziano e della sua cerchia. Exh. cat. Neri Pozza, Venice, 1976: 129-130.

1976: Russell, H. Diane. Review of "Venetian Drawings." Master Drawings 14, no. 3 (Autumn 1976): 310.

1979: Saccomani, Elisabetta. "Per la grafica di Domenico Campagnola: una questione controversa," Arte Veneta 33, 1979, 44, 49, note 19.

1982: Saccomani, Elisabetta. "Domenico Campagnola disegnatore di "paesi" dagli esordi alla prima maturità," Arte Veneta 36, 1982, 90-91, 98, nn. 70, 74.

1987: Wethey, Harold E. Titian and His Drawings, with Reference to Giorgione and Some Close Contemporaries. Princeton, 1987: 188, no. A-19, fig. 184.