Saint Jerome Praying in His Study
17th century
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash with touches of white and red chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 10 1/4 x 8 5/16 in. (26 x 21.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Given in memory of Felix M. Warburg by his wife and children, 1941
Accession Number
41.21.3
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About the Artist
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1606–1669
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669) stands as one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art and the most important Dutch painter of the 17th century. Born in Leiden to a prosperous miller's family, Rembrandt transformed painting through his revolutionary use of light and shadow, his psychological depth in portraiture, and his elevation of etching to a fine art. His approx...