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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.637
People
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)
After Jacopo Palma Giovane, Italian (Venice, Italy c. 1548 - 1628 Venice, Italy)
Published by Claes Jansz. Visscher, Dutch (Amsterdam 1587 - 1652 Amsterdam)
Title
Saint Jerome
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1596
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/339734

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 42.3 x 28 cm (16 5/8 x 11 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, lower right of design area: Cum privil. Sa. C. M. / Anno. 1596.
  • inscription: in plate, upper right corner: Alexandro Victori Insigni / Statuario et Architecto / amicitiae ergo / D.D. / Jacobus Palma Inuent. HG[monogram]oltzius sculp.
  • inscription: engraved in plate, lower right: C. Schoneus
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: III / B./ 266
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 49 / CAH [?]
  • inscription: from old mat, now removed: 74 [encircled] Jacabo Palma, Il Giovane inx. / Hendrick Goltzius Fec. / St. Jerome Penitent in the Desert / 1596
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, to left and right: Vir pietatis amans mollis solatia vite, / Fallaces carnis deliciásq fugit. // Et solum casto maditatur pectore Christum, / Hinc sibi presidium, subsidiumq petens.
  • inscription: verso, brown ink: L170
  • watermark: Grapes

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Robert Bradford Wheaton and Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, Concord, MA, later Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2011.

Notes:
Robert Bradford Wheaton passed away in 2010.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/iv
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 330, Hollstein 311

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Barbara Ketcham Wheaton
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2011.637
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Michael Zell, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeent-Century Dutch Art, Amsterdam University Press (Amsterdam, 2021), pp. 199, 202, 204, repr. p. 202 as fig. 84

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/24/2019 - 02/13/2020

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