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Saint Jerome (Study for the unfinished engraving)

(Italian, 1557–1602)
about 1600
Medium/TechniquePen and brown ink over traces of black chalk; verso, pen and brown ink
DimensionsSight: 12.3 x 11.4 cm (4 13/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
Framed: 34.1 x 28.9 x 3.4 cm (13 7/16 x 11 3/8 x 1 5/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz
Accession number2008.1698
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsVerso, lower left in brown ink: 5 8 [?] Verso, lower left in black chalk: ag. Caracci
ProvenanceSagredo-Borghese Collection; to Baron Landau Finaly, inv. no. 417 (Lugt 1334c); to Richard Day Ltd. (London), 1987; to Jak Katalan (New York); sold London, Phillips de Pury & Company, July 9, 2001, lot 143; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz (Beverly, MA); by whom given to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Accession date: January 21, 2009)
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