Saint Jerome Reading, c. 1624

Not on View

Medium

etching with some engraving and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 19.1 x 25.3 cm (7 1/2 x 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Philip and Judith Benedict

Catalogue Raisonné

Brown 1973, no. 13, State only

Accession Number

1997.88.4

Artists / Makers

Jusepe de Ribera (artist) Spanish, 1591 - 1652

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left in plate with false monogram: GR / A; by later hand, upper center verso in graphite: 16; by later hand, center right verso in graphite: B. 3

Provenance

Unidentified collector (stamp, balance, Lugt undescribed); Dr. Ruth B. Benedict (1913-1993), Washington, DC; by descent to Philip and Judith Benedict; gift to NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Benedict, Ruth B., Dr.

Exhibition History

1994: A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 19.

Bibliography

1973: Brown, Jonathan. Jusepe de Ribera: Prints and Drawings. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973.

1994: A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: no. 19.