St. Jerome Instructing his Disciples in the Desert, plate 11 from "Les Tableaux de Rome, Les Eglises Jubilaires" (The Paintings of Rome, The Churches Jubilee)
Medium
Engraving; second state of three (Lieure)
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 9/16 x 3 1/16 in. (11.6 x 7.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.569.12
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the early 17th century, the Catholic Church's Jubilee celebrations, Jacques Callot, a masterful French engraver, captured the grandeur of Rome's sacred art in his series *Les Tableaux de, Les Eglisesilaires*. This plate 11, *St. Jerome Instructing his Disciples in the Desert* (1607–11), reproduces a composition by the Italian Mannerist painter Girolamo Muziano. The tiny engraving—measuring just 4 9/16 x 3 1/16 inches—showcases St. Jerome, the scholarly Church Father renowned for translating the Bible into Latin, teaching his followers amid a stark desert landscape, symbolized by a prominent...
About the Artist
Jacques Callot|Girolamo Muziano · 1592–1635
Jacques Callot (1592–1635) was a French printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine, widely regarded as one of the first great artists to practice the graphic arts exclusively. His more than 1,400 etchings chronicled the breadth of 17th-century life, from Medici court festivities to the brutal realities of warfare. Callot revolutionized etching through technical innovations including the é...