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Saint Jerome Kneeling in Prayer |
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| Original Etching |
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| H 4.25in x W 3.75in |
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| 1635
Original etching printed in black ink on laid paper.
A fine 17th/18th century impression of Bartsch’s only state,
Signed and dated in the plate upper right Rembrandt
Bartsch 102; Hind 140; Biorklund-Barnard 35-H; Usticke 102 ii/iii
Usticke’s second state of three, printed prior to the appearance of the strong short diagonal scratch under the
signature. Bearing the annotation “103” (the Gersaint catalogue reference number on this print) in brown ink at the
upper right corner.
St. Jerome, translator of the Bible, cardinal and hermit, is one of the four Fathers of the Church. He is often depicted in
art as a hermit in the wilderness. His lion is generally at his side, the lion that accompanied him, according to legend,
since the time he extracted a thorn from its paw. It seems out of the ordinary that Jerome, who was mainly popular with
Catholics in the 17th century, was depicted by Rembrandt so often in his etchings.
The reson for this may lie in the great number of 16th century prints and drawing of St. Jerome that could have inspired
Rembrandt. Or perhaps for Rembrandt Jerome was still the father of humanism, as the reormers of the 16th century saw
him.
Rembrandt’s many contacts with poeple of differetn religions and the ease with which he turned to Cathilic models
in his art are proof od his lack of dogmatism |
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