Saint Jerome

c. 1470

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    metalcut, hand-colored in orange-brown, light yellow, and olive

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 15.9 x 11.8 cm (6 1/4 x 4 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 20 x 13.8 cm (7 7/8 x 5 7/16 in.)
    overall (external frame dimensions): 39.4 x 31.8 cm (15 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.706

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 2681


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1941

  • The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 48a.

1965

  • Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 18.

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 357, repro.

1984

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1984.

2005

  • Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 48, repro.

Bibliography

1926

  • Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.

1965

  • Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965.

2013

  • Brisman, Shira. "The Image That Wants to Be Read: An Invitation for Interpretation in a Drawing by Albrecht Dürer." Word & Image 29, no. 3 (July/September 2013): 291-292, fig. 13.

Inscriptions

in margin above image, by hand in ink: Possit non eiciam [sic] picture demon ut nullus apparere suo tanto / temuit [?] ipse pauore. Obiectum [sic] fuerit nam si quod demone corpus / hunc mox in tuitus [sic] depellet ymage [sic] alme (The picture [is] so powerful that when it appears, the demon will fear and tremble. If any body is obsessed by a demon, as soon as it is displayed, the sacred image will dispel it.)
[translation from Parshall, Peter, and Rainer Schoch. Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005, p. 183.]

Watermarks

Gothic P with flower

Wikidata ID

Q64962959


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