# Saint Jerome Reading in an Italianate Landscape

- By: Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
- Date: c. 1653
- Medium: Japanese paper (handmade paper)
- Classification: print
- Dimensions: height 260 mm x width 209 mm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-P-OB-184--a83de0908914cfe11c11f4c908781a72)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/fFrsF/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.