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St. Jerome in Penitence

about 1480–1500

Medium/Technique Fine Manner engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 24.7 × 17.3 cm (9 3/4 × 6 13/16 in.)
Platemark: 17.3 × 11.6 cm (6 13/16 × 4 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Maria Antoinette Evans Fund
Accession Number28.1094
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind A.I.85; Passavant (Anonymous Italian Engravers) V, 17, 19
Marks Verso, lower right-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceProbably about 1500, added to a bound collection of prints known as Codice Trivulziano 2143 (fol. 58) [see note 1]. By 1818, Marchese Gian Giacomo Trivulzio (b. 1776 – d. 1831), Milan; by descent to his great-grandson, Luigi Alberico Trivulzio (b. 1868 – d. 1938), Milan; March 1928, the codex was sold by Luigi Alberico Trivulzio and the prints dispersed. 1928, sold by P. and D. Colnaghi, London, to the MFA for $8735 [see note 2]. (Accession Date: October 1, 1928)

NOTES: [1] On the history of the codex, see Alessia Alberti, “Alle origini del collezionismo di stampe. Un esempio del tempo di Leonardo: il codice Trivulziano 2143,” Rassegna di Studi e di Notizie 2018-2019, pp. 287-334. [2] Price paid for MFA accession nos. 28.1093-1094.