Study for Saint Jerome
after 1598
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash and traces of graphite, heightened with lead white (partially oxidized), on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid card prepared with gold paint
Dimensions
42 × 27.4 cm (16 9/16 × 10 13/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
81664
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Lodovico Carracci · 1555–1619
Lodovico's style is charaterized by being less classical than that of his younger cousins, Agostino and Annibale, his figures have a sense of other-worldliness, and he is more influenced by Mannerist art than his cousins. Like his cousins, he espoused the direct study of nature, especially through figure drawing; he was influenced by the paintings of Correggio and the Venetians.