Saint Jerome in the Desert

mid-17th century

Bartolomeo Coriolano

Artist, Italian, active 1627/1653

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chiaroscuro woodcut, printed from three blocks in blue, brown and black, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 29.46 × 22 cm (11 5/8 × 8 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2020.136.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch 1802 - 1821, no. 33

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Engel Family Collection, Los Angeles; (Pia Gallo, New York); purchased 2020 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821, no. 33

2010

  • Takahatake, Naoko. "Coriolano" Print Quarterly 27 (2010): no. version A i/ii

Inscriptions

lower left in block: Guid. Ren. Inven. / Barthol. Coriolanus Eques / Sculpit Bonon. 1637.; by later hand, lower center verso on mount in graphite: XOO. 89. 31 1ier Ex B Coriooan d'apres Guide [not deciphered]; by later hand, center verso in brown ink: undeciphered inscription crossed out

Markings

R.E. (not in Lugt)

Watermarks

fleur-de-lys in single circle with crown above

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