Saint Jerome Praying in a Landscape., 1550–60, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, on paper tinted with a light brown wash, 8 3/8 x 6 9/16 in. (21.2 x 16.6 cm), Drawings, Attributed to Niccolò dell' Abate (Italian, Modena 1509–1571 Fontainebleau (?)), This expressive, highly finished composition of strongly inflected 'chiaroscuro' portrays a muscular nude figure of Saint Jerome seated within a cave, and surrounded by his various attributes: the lion, the cardinal's hat, the crucifix, the human skull of the memento mori, and the stones of self-mortification
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Saint Jerome Praying, Landscape, 1550–60, Pen, brown ink, brush, wash, highlighted, white gouache, paper tinted, light brown, 8 3/8 x 6 9/16, 21.2 16.6 cm, Drawings, Attributed to Niccolò dell' Abate, Italian, Modena, 1509–1571, Fontainebleau, expressive, highly finished, composition, strongly inflected, chiaroscuro, portrays, muscular nude, figure, Jerome, seated, within, cave, surrounded, various attributes, lion, cardinal, hat, crucifix, human skull, memento mori, stones, self-mortification
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