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Description: | A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It is a landscape with a valley and river to the right and rocky mountains to the left. In the middle distance is a castle built on the rocks, and above it are two birds in flight. There is a large tree against the left edge and in the lower left foreground is a man and a lion. The lion enables us to identify the man as St Jerome. He is wearing a hat and is crouched over a book. The twisting river on the right leads to a larger area of water in the background, beyond which are mountains.
Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society:
"No. 18
PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER
(b. about 1525; d. 1569)
SAINT JEROME IN THE WILDERNESS
British Museum, 1909-1-9-8. Pen and ink. 31 x 42 cm. (12 1/4 x 16 1/2 in.).
A view over an extensive country of plain and hill traversed by a broad winding river, with a steep rocky eminence surmounted by a castle towards the left, and in the extreme left foreground a tall tree, at the foot of which St. Jerome kneels before a crucifix reading from his book, with his lion resting behind him. Signed Bruegel 1566. One of a set of landscapes inspired by the master's travels through Europe to Italy and back, in which the figure of the Saint plays quite a subordinate part in the picturesque expanse of the scene. There is a contemporary engraving after the drawing, one of a set published by Hieronymus Cock ... .
S. C."
Technique: REPRODUCTION
Technique: collotype (print)
Reproduction by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness (1932.73/18). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.105140 | Go to resource |
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