St Jerome Reading in his Study

Willem Drost

c. 1650 - c. 1655

St Jerome Reading in his Study by Willem Drost

Medium

reed pen and brown ink, some areas deliberately rubbed with a finger or brush, with opaque white (oxidized); framing lines in brown ink

Dimensions

167; 147

About this artwork

…; sale, Freiherr Max von Eelking (1813-78, Meiningen), Cologne (J.M. Heberle), 3 June 1902 sqq., no. 143, as Rembrandt, DM 700, to Johannes Christian Magnus Rump (1861-1932), Copenhagen (L. 3401);{Copy RKD.} his sale, Berlin (Amsler and Ruthardt), 25 May 1908 sqq., no. 419, as Rembrandt, DM 620, to Johan II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1840-1929), Vaduz;{Copy RKD.} by descent to his grandnephew, Franz Josef II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1909-89), Vaduz;{According to L. 4398.} from whom, as manner o...

About the Artist

Willem Drost · 16331659

Dutch, late 17th or early 18th century

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