Roman School, 17th Century
St. Jerome in a Landscape
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July 6, 12:12 PM GMT
Estimate
1,800 - 2,200 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Roman School, 17th century
St. Jerome in a Landscape
Pen and brown ink, within brown ▨ink and wash framing lines; circular;
bears pencil numbering, lower right: 26 and inscription, verso: Mompers/XVIeme
Diameter 239 mm
The present drawing may well share its provenance with another circular landscape in pen and ink, at the Princeton University Art Museum, which has exactly the same combination of framing lines and green mount border. That drawing was attributed by John Gere to Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (1606-1680).1
1. Inv. no. 51-21; F. Gibbons, Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton 1977, cat. and pl. 249