About the Artwork
Saint Jerome in the Desert
between 1494 and 1533
Lucas van Leyden
1494-1533
Netherlandish
Unknown
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 6 × 5 3/8 inches (15.2 × 13.7 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Bernard F. Walker
68.16
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in plate, lower left edge of image: L
Inscribed, in plate, upper left of image: 1516 Inscribed, in pencil, verso: [numeric notations]
Stamped, in black, verso: J. K. Bronner (Lugt 307) Stamped, in black, verso: Stadelsches Kunstinstitut (Lugt 2396)
Provenance
J. K. Bronner
Staedelsches Kunstinstitut (Frankfurt, Germany)
Bernard F. Walker
1968-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Jacobowitz, E. S. The Prints of Lucas Van Leyden and His Contemporaries. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC, 1983, no. 52.
Volbehr, T. Lucas Van Leyden. Hamburg, 1888, no. 110.
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Lucas van Leyden, Saint Jerome in the Desert, between 1494 and 1533, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Bernard F. Walker, 68.16.
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