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The Last Communion of Saint Jerome

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The Last Communion of Saint Jerome

Ludovico Carracci

1555–1619

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk; squared in red chalk

Tags

Human Figures Saint Jerome

Dimensions

sheet: 16 7/16 x 11 7/16 in. (41.7 x 29.1 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1965

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Ludovico Carracci

1555–1619 • Papal States

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.

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