Live veiling - Lot 288
[Italian]
St Jerome in the wilderness.
Rome, Gio Jacomo de' Rossi, 1631-1637
€ 250 / 350
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Beschrijving lot
Etching, 30,5 x 23,1 cm, laid paper with watermark (5-pointed star); signed with monogram at lower right corner "TP" (slight horiz. crease running over centre, tiny hole at Jerome's beard).
Saint Jerome before a crucifix accompanied by a lion and three putti holding his cardinal's hat. One of Testa's finest large prints. Good impression of the 3rd and final state, with the address of de' Rossi.
Ref. Bartsch XX:219.15. - Bellini 43.9.iii. - E. Cropper, "Pietro Testa 1612-1650: Prints and Drawings", Philadephia, 1988, no. 8.