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St. Jerome
Jean Honoré Fragonard (after Johann Liss (German, c. 1595/1600–1631))
n.d.
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image: 15.3 × 10.5 cm (6 1/16 × 4 3/16 in.); Plate: 16.5 × 11.4 cm (6 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.); Sheet: 20 × 15.7 cm (7 7/8 × 6 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Joseph Brooks Fair Fund, through exchange
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Fragonard traveled a great deal during his career, and always took the opportunity to copy images from the paintings and sculptures he saw. This etching shows the influence of the Baroque artist Johann Lys. The fine network of lines used by Fragonard, however, reflects his own exquisite drawing style rather than the blustery brushstrokes found in oil paintings such as Lys' s.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
