St. Jerome seated on the ground and reading an inscribed scroll, a skull next to his right leg and a lion beyond, by Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto), ca. 1624
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St. Jerome seated on the ground and reading an inscribed scroll, a skull next to his right leg and a lion beyond

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) (Spanish, Játiva 1591–1652 Naples)

ca. 1624

Medium
Etching and engraving
Classification
Prints
Dimensions
plate: 7 1/2 x 9 13/16 in. (19 x 24.9 cm) sheet: 7 11/16 x 10 in. (19.5 x 25.4 cm)
Culture
Spanish
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints
Credit line
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Rights
Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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