Saint Jerome

1631/1637

Pietro Testa

Artist, Italian, 1612 - 1650

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 30.7 x 23.2 cm (12 1/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
    mount: 45 × 31.4 cm (17 11/16 × 12 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2011.91.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch 1802 - 1821, no. 15

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, 26 May 2011, lot 5222); (C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2011 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821, no. 15.

1976

  • Bellini, Paolo._L’opera incisa di Pietro Testa._Vicenza: N. Pozza, 1976, no. 9.

1988

  • Cropper, Elizabeth. Pietro Testa 1612 - 1650: Prints and Drawings. Philadelphia, 1988: no. 71

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: PTL; lower right in plate: Gio. Iacomo Rossi Le Stampa in Roma alla Pace; by later hand, lower center on mount, in pen and black ink: B/ Lista 3 No. 29; by different later hand, lower center on mount, in graphite, Pietro Testa / Bartsch XX pag. 219 #15/ 2.me Etat. v. II/ (Rossi's Adresse)/ "St. Hieronimus i.d. Wüste"; by later hand, lower right on mount, in graphite, 626; by later hand, upper left on mount verso, in graphite, 99060-29/2

Wikidata ID

Q76558912

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