Saint Jerome Reading in the Wilderness

1520/1525

Domenico Campagnola

Artist, Venetian, before 1500 - 1564

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on brown laid paper (laid down on early blue paper album sheet)

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (approximate): 30.7 × 21.6 cm (12 1/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1973.52.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly Padre Resta, Milan; part of the so-called "Borghese Album;" private collection, Lyon; M. de Marignane, Paris; (H. Shickman Gallery, New York); NGA purchase in 1973.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

  • Venetian Drawings from American Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and others (International Exhibitions Foundation), 1974-1975, no. 9 (Terisio Pignati).

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 23.

1976

  • Disegni di Tiziano e della sua cerchia, Fondazione Cini, Venice, 1976, no. 74 and mentioned under no. 52 (Konrad Oberhuber with the assistance of Hilliard Goldfarb).

1988

  • Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 16.

Bibliography

1974

  • Recent Acquistiions and Promised Gifts: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974: 63.

  • Pignatti, Terisio. _ Venetian Drawings from American Collections_. Washingon, 1974: 10

1976

  • Russell, H. Diane. Review of "Venetian Drawings." Master Drawings 14, no. 3 (Autumn 1976): 310.

  • Disegni di Tiziano e della sua cerchia. Exh. cat. Neri Pozza, Venice, 1976: 129-130.

1979

  • Saccomani, Elisabetta. "Per la grafica di Domenico Campagnola: una questione controversa," Arte Veneta 33, 1979, 44, 49, note 19.

1982

  • Saccomani, Elisabetta. "Domenico Campagnola disegnatore di "paesi" dagli esordi alla prima maturità," Arte Veneta 36, 1982, 90-91, 98, nn. 70, 74.

1987

  • Wethey, Harold E. Titian and His Drawings, with Reference to Giorgione and Some Close Contemporaries. Princeton, 1987: 188, no. A-19, fig. 184.

Inscriptions

in later hand, lower right: M. Tizian; upper center verso sideways: S.T. no.5; upper center verso: no.44

Wikidata ID

Q64541062

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