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Follow the angel’s hand to the old saint’s lips, then look up at the two small angels peering down from the clouds at the left.
Saint Jerome, the scholar who translated the Bible into Latin, receives communion at the end of his life. Tiepolo shows an angel leaning down from a cloud to the aged, half-dressed saint, who kneels by his open book while two small angels watch from above. Touches of lead white pick out the brightest lights on this large sheet, which the Cleveland Museum of Art dates to about 1726.
pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk heightened with lead white · Sheet: 55.2 x 40.8 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Rococo
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- Museum title
- The Last Communion of St. Jerome
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770)
- Date
- c. 1726
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk heightened with lead white
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 55.2 x 40.8 cm (21 3/4 x 16 1/16 in.); Secondary Support: 55.2 x 40.8 cm (21 3/4 x 16 1/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Edward B. Greene
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.