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Saint Jerome Reading in an Italianate Landscape
Also titled Hiëronymus lezend in een Italiaans landschap
Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
c. 1653
- Medium
- Japanese paper (handmade paper)
- Classification
- Dimensions
- height 260 mm x width 209 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
The upright format and diagonal sweep of this etching were derived from Titian. Rembrandt underscored the diagonal layout of the depiction by alternating passages of light and shade. He left the foreground deliberately unfinished to produce the effect of bright sunlight. The shaded area behind Jerome is a dense web of parallel and criss-crossed drypoint lines.
