Maria verschijnt aan de heilige Hieronymus, Agostino Carracci, after Jacopo Tintoretto, 1588

Title(s)

Maria verschijnt aan de heilige Hieronymus

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-35.745

Catalogue reference

• DeGrazia Bohlin 146*-2(4)
• The Illustrated Bartsch 153-2(5)
• Bartsch 76

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

De heilige Hieronymus schrikt op uit zijn gebed door de verschijning van Maria en engelen in de lucht. Naast Hieronymus liggen een boek, zijn kardinaalshoed en een leeuw.

Artist

• print maker: Agostino Carracci (mentioned on object)
• after design by: Jacopo Tintoretto (mentioned on object)
• unknown (mentioned on object)

Place

print maker: Italy
after design by: Venice

Dating

1588

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 416 mm × width 300 mm

What

• St. Jerome as penitent in the desert, half naked, kneeling before a crucifix and holding a stone in his hand to beat his breast; a skull (and other 'Vanitas' symbols), sometimes a scorpion and a snake beside him (+ Mary)

Acquisition

transfer 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Prints and related drawings by the Carracci family : a catalogue raisonné, p. 252, cat.nr. 146*
• The illustrated Bartsch, dl. 39 commentary 1, p. 212-219, cat.nr. 153
• The illustrated Bartsch, dl. 39, p. 118, cat.nr. 76
• Le peintre graveur, dl. 18, p. 77, cat.nr. 76