About the Artwork
Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
17th century
Guido Reni (Artist) Italian, 1575-1642 (Artist) Italian
Pen and brown ink on dark cream laid paper
Sheet: 8 7/16 × 5 7/8 inches (21.4 × 14.9 cm)
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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR207
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, upper right corner:22 Inscribed, in pen and black ink, on mount, at lower center, between borders: Guido Reni | 13.15 Inscribed, in pen and black ink, on mount, lower left: No. 207 A [indecipherable pencil mark above] Hermit at Prayer — By — Guido Reni. Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, upper center right: S59 Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, center: 12. Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, lower right corner: 10M [or 10 fl?] Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, lower center edge: Colection Graf Sternberg
Provenance
Count Sternberg, possibly Count Franz Sternberg-Manderscheid (Prague, Austria-Hungary) (see L. 971 and 1835). C.J. Meyer (Carlsbad). September 1887, James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 289, no. A33.
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Italian; after Guido Reni, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, 17th century, pen and brown ink on dark cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR207.
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