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Compare the dense, swelling lines of Jerome’s body with the bare scratched outlines at lower right, then find the stone in his fist.
Agostino Carracci died in 1602 before he finished engraving this plate, which was printed only after his death. That is why the impression shows his method so clearly: he first scratched the outlines of the whole design into the copper, then cut the figure and its shading with a steel burin, working out from the center. The kneeling saint is fully worked, while the lower right corner is still only a sketch.
Engraving on ivory laid paper · Art Institute of Chicago · Baroque
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- Museum title
- Saint Jerome in Penitence
- Artist
- Agostino Carracci Italian, 1557-1602
- Date
- c. 1602
- Medium
- Engraving on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image/sheet; cut within platemark: 38.7 × 27.7 cm (15 1/4 × 10 15/16 in.)
- Credit line
- John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.