Saint Jerome, 1631/1637

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Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 30.7 x 23.2 cm (12 1/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
mount: 45 × 31.4 cm (17 11/16 × 12 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch 1802 - 1821, no. 15

Accession Number

2011.91.4

Artists / Makers

Pietro Testa (artist) Italian, 1612 - 1650

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: PTL; lower right in plate: Gio. Iacomo Rossi Le Stampa in Roma alla Pace; by later hand, lower center on mount, in pen and black ink: B/ Lista 3 No. 29; by different later hand, lower center on mount, in graphite, Pietro Testa / Bartsch XX pag. 219 #15/ 2.me Etat. v. II/ (Rossi's Adresse)/ "St. Hieronimus i.d. Wüste"; by later hand, lower right on mount, in graphite, 626; by later hand, upper left on mount verso, in graphite, 99060-29/2

Provenance

(Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, 26 May 2011, lot 5222); (C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2011 by NGA.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821, no. 15.

1976: Bellini, Paolo.L’opera incisa di Pietro Testa.Vicenza: N. Pozza, 1976, no. 9.

1988: Cropper, Elizabeth. Pietro Testa 1612 - 1650: Prints and Drawings. Philadelphia, 1988: no. 71