Saint Jerome Reading in an Italianate Landscape, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1653

Title(s)

Saint Jerome Reading in an Italianate Landscape
St Jerome reading in an Italian landscape

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-184

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish (Rembrandt text) 275-1(2)
• Bartsch 104-1(2)
• Hollstein Dutch 104-1(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Artist

• print maker: Rembrandt van Rijn
• after own design by: Rembrandt van Rijn

Dating

c. 1653

Material

• Japanese paper (handmade paper)

Technique

etching / intaglio printmaking technique / drypoint

Measurements

height 260 mm × width 209 mm

What

• St. Jerome as hermit in a landscape, reading

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

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• Late Rembrandt, Jonathan Bikker, Gregor J.M. Weber, Marjorie Elizabeth Wieseman, Marijn Schapelhouman, Anna Krekeler, Christopher White, p. 81; p. 297-298, cat.nr. 22
• Rembrandt / compiled by Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, Jaco Rutgers, Erik Hinterding, Ger Luijten, dl. II, p. 225, cat.nr. 275
• Rembrandt etchings from the Frits Lugt collection, Erik Hinterding, Frits Lugt, p. 224-226, cat.nr. 88
• Rembrandt's journey : painter, draftsman, etcher, p. 222-223, cat.nr. 148
• Rembrandt the printmaker [ : 1 2000], Erik Hinterding, Ger Luijten, Martin Royalton-Kisch, Marijn Schapelhouman, Peter Schatborn, Ernst van de Wetering, p. 293-297, cat.nr. 72
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• Dutch and flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, cat.nr. 104
• C.B. Scallen, 'Rembrandt's etching St Jerome reading in an Italian landscape', Delineavit et Sculpsit 8 (1992), p. 1-11
• S.D. Kuretsky, 'Rembrandt's tree stump. An iconographic attribute of St Jerome', The Art Bulletin 56 (1974), p. 576-578