Saint Jerome. Engraving by Agostino Carracci, 1588, after Tintoretto.

Tintoretto, 1518-1594.

Date:: 1588

Reference:: 8630i

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Description

The Virgin descends from above right, carried by four angels. Saint Jerome, kneeling in his hermitage, turns to his left and upwards to see her. The lion, bottom centre, also turns its eyes upwards. Background right, a bridge over a ravine leading to a temple

Publication/Creation

Ven.a [Venezia, Venice] (a S. Julia in Vene.a) : Apreso Stefano Scolari ; [Venice?] : Donati Rascichoti for[mis]

Physical description

1 print : engraving

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Lettering

Lettering on Saint Jerome's book, bottom left: Hoc Iacobi Tintoretti ill. pict. insigni in vestro sacello (viri pientiss.) egregie coloribus expressu(m) opus iam nuo [i.e. iamnunc?] summo studio lineari pictura desu(m)ptu(m) typisq(ue) aeneis excussum Augustinus Carracius Bononien. universae beati Hieronymi in sancto Fantino Venetiar(um) confraternitati revere(n)ter dicatu(m) obtulit seseq(ue) umil[it]er comendat 1588

Edition

[DeGrazia Bohlin's State IV, printed in Scolari's lifetime, i.e. between ca. 1650 and ca. 1691].

References note

Diane DeGrazia Bohlin, Prints and related drawings by the Carracci family: a catalogue raisonné, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979, pp. 252-253, Agostino no. 146

Michael Bury, The print in Italy 1550-1620, British Museum, 2001, no. 130