Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

c. 1591

Annibale Carracci

Associated Names
Annibale Carracci

Artist, Bolognese, 1560 - 1609

Pietro Stefanoni

Publisher, Italian, 1557-c.1642

The image shows a man sitting on the ground with a beard, looking up. He is holding a skull in his left hand, resting it on a book. He is surrounded by a cross staff, plants, and there are trees and foliage in the background.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to platemark): 25.8 × 19.5 cm (10 3/16 × 7 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1972.66.21

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bohlin 1979, no. 13, State ii/iv (?)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John St. Aubyn (1758-1839), Devonport & London (Lugt 1534). Max Paul Albert von Baldinger-Seidenberg (1837-1904), Stuttgart (Lugt 212)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 94.

Bibliography

1979

  • Bohlin, Diane DeGrazia. Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1979.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, along bottom edge: P. S. F.; verso: at top in graphite in later hand: Annibale Carracci B. 14 / g/140 / 46- [upsidedown]; at center in graphite in later hand: 687 [circled]; at bottom left in graphite in later hand: 22; at bottom right in graphite in later hand: A. Carracci 1560-1609 / C36489 / B. 15 I-II/2 1021 / [indecipherable]

Markings

recto: John St. Aubyn (Lugt 1534); verso: Max Paul Albert von Baldinger-Seidenberg (Lugt 212) and National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

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Wikidata ID

Q65565345

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