Original etching printed in black ink on laid paper.
Platemark: 4 7/16 x 3 1/8 Sheet size: 5 x 3 5/8 inches
1635
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Signed in the plate (faintly) upper right Rembrandt.
A richly inked 18th century impression of Bartsch's only state, Usticke's second state of three, with a warm plate tone throughout, printed after the appearance of the strong short diagonal scratch under the signature.
In excellent condition, printed on a sheet with small margins outside the platemark on all four sides. Rembrandt depicted St. Jerome often in his etchings. The reason for this may lie in the great number of 16th century prints and drawing of St. Jerome that could have inspired Rembrandt. Or, perhaps for Rembrandt, Jerome was still the father of humanism, as the reformers of the 16th century saw him. Rembrandt's many contacts with people of different religions and the ease with which he turned to Catholic models in his art, are proof of his lack of dogmatism.
Bartsch 102; hind 140; Biorklund-Barnard 35-H; Usticke 102 ii/iii
