Artist: After Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn (1606-1669)
Title: St. Jerome Reading in an Italian Landscape
Medium: Antique hand pulled copper plate etching on laid paper after the original by master etcher Amand Durand (1831 – 1905).
Year: c.1880 (This print is from the 1800’s it is NOT a modern print.)
Reference: Bartsch 104, Lugt. 2934
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 18 x 20 inches
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
St Jerome reading in an Italian landscape; St Jerome reclining on a mound in the foreground with his slippers off, leaning on his elbows, reading a book, wearing a broad-rimmed hat, a lion seen on its back beside him at right, a treestump and clump of trees beyond on the left, buildings in the right background, a river with waterfall and bridge with two figures on it at right.
Rembrandt van Rijn was a Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favored an uncompromising realism that would lead some critics to claim that he preferred ugliness to beauty.