Saint Jerome

1565/1570

Alessandro Vittoria

Associated Names
Alessandro Vittoria

Artist, Venetian, 1525 - 1608

The image shows a sketch of a seated bearded figure holding an orb. The figure appears muscular, with a beard merging into long hair. The face is not detailed, and draped fabric covers part of the body. There is no jewelry, and the background is plain.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink over red chalk over leadpoint, reworked with reed pen and brown ink

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 30.9 × 21.8 cm (12 3/16 × 8 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1995.8.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Count Binerbi, Verona; Dr. and Mrs. Victor Bloch, London; (sale Sotheby's London, 12 November 1964, no. 121); P. & D. Colnaghi Gallery, London; Cyril Humphris, London; (sale, New York, 10 January 1995, no. 55); NGA purchase via (W.M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York), 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1965

  • Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, London, Colnaghi, June-July 1965, no. 2.

1980

  • Disegni veneti di collezioni inglesi, Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 1980, no. 44.

1997

  • Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 42.

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 24.

Bibliography

2017

  • Meijer, Bert W. Il disegno veneziano, 1580-1650 : ricostruzioni storico-artistiche. Florence, 2017: 172, note 57, as attribution incorrect.

Inscriptions

by later hand, on mount, lower right in graphite: Tiziano

Wikidata ID

Q64534035

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