Saint Bernard of Clairvaux with the Instruments of the Passion

c. 1625

Pieter de Jode I

Associated Names
Pieter de Jode I

Artist, Flemish, 1570 - 1634

The image shows a drawing of a man from the waist up. He is in a three-quarter view, looking down. The man has a receding hairline and is wearing a religious robe. In his hands, he holds a bundle of straw-like objects tied together, a large wooden cross, elongated objects, a large key, and a rosary. There is a faint halo around his head. In the background, there is a cloth with a face drawn on it, a column with a rooster on top, a ladder, and an open book in the foreground. The drawing is monochromatic, emphasizing contour and shading.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with gray and brown wash and black chalk, incised for transfer on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 31.6 x 20.3 cm (12 7/16 x 8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2009.70.12

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Prosper Henry Lankrink [1628-1692], London (Lugt 2090). (P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, by 1966, as Abraham Bloemaert); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1966; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 52-53, no. 15 (entry by Rozemarijn Landsman).

Inscriptions

by the artist, upper right in black chalk on the top of the cross: INRI (in reverse); by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: D2843(erased)[0?]; by later hand, lower right verso in red crayon: [not deciphered].

Wikidata ID

Q64619651

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