Saint Jerome in his Study
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471 - 1528
1514
Engraving on laid paper
Meder a
Plate: 9 3/4 × 7 3/8 in. (24.7 × 18.8 cm)
Sheet: 9 7/8 × 7 1/2 in. (25.1 × 19 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Jean K. Weil in memory of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935
2013.7.1
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, In plate, lower right: 1514 / AD [artist's monogram]; Collector's mark: reverse, inscribed, in ink, on verso: P. Mariette 1668 [Lugt 1790]; Collector's mark: reverse, stamped, in black ink,lower left: collection mark of R. S./ H. [in triangle; Lugt 2242]; Collector's mark, reverse, stamped, in black ink [now gray], lower left: V.W [encircled]
Course History
ITAL 22, Humanism and Renaissance, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2014
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
HIST 96.31, The Crisis of the Late Middle Ages Reconsidered: Art, Artists, and Cultural Change in the ‘Northern Renaissance,’ 1350–1575, Walter Simons, Fall 2019
HIST 96.39, Saints and Material Devotion, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Fall 2021
HIST 96.39, Saints and Relics, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Fall 2021
SART 27.01, Printmaking I, Tricia Treacy, Fall 2022
ITAL 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Fall 2022
ITAL 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022
ITAL 1.03, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022
History 3.01, Europe in the Age of Wonder, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin and Walter Simons, Winter 2023
Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023
Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023
Art History 7.05, Pompeii: Antique & Modern, Ada Cohen, Winter 2023
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023
Italian 2.02, Introductory Italian II, Matteo Gilebbi, Winter 2023
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian 1, Giorgio Alberti, Fall 2023
Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian 1, Marco D'Angelo, Fall 2023
Italian 1.03, Introductory Italian 1, Floriana Ciniglia, Fall 2023
Italian 1.04, Introductory Italian 1, Noemi Perego, Fall 2023
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Marco D'Angelo, Fall 2023
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian 1, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2024
Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian 1, Floriana Ciniglia, Winter 2024
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2024
Italian 2.02, Introductory Italian II, Noemi Perego, Winter 2024
Studio Art 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2024
Studio Art 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2024
Geography 29.01, Global Cities, Erin Collins, Spring 2024
Geography 29.01, Global Cities, Erin Collins, Spring 2024
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Noemi Perego, Spring 2024
Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024
Italian 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Tania Convertini, Spring 2024
Italian 3.02, Introductory Italian III, Giorgio Alberti, Spring 2024
Exhibition History
A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 17-December 20, 1998.
From Altarpiece to Portrait: Assembling a European Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26-July 21, 2019.
Ivan Albright Gallery [exhibited in conjunction with the Spring Hood Museum Board of Overseers Meeting to honor the Weils and their son and daughters, including Dr. Laurie Weil a member of the Hood's current Board of Overseers), Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 9-10, 2013.
Points of View, Art History 2, ARTH 2, Winter 2016, Joy Kenseth and Mary Coffey, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 1-March 13, 2016.
The Object World, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ARTH2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 5-March 15, 2015.
Publication History
Timothy Rub, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Kelly Pask, "A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1998, p.49, ill p.48, listed, p.94, no. 99.
Diane J. Gingold, "Master Prints from the Fifteenth through Eighteenth Centuries: From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr.", Montgomery, Alabama: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1997, p.42, ill p.43.
John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 86, ill. plate no. 17.
Published References
Robert Grigg, "Studies on Dürer's Diary of his Journey to the Netherlands: The Distribution of the Melencolia I," Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte, v. 49, no. 3 (1986), pp.398-409. Eugene F. Rice, Saint Jerome in the Renaissance, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, pp.111-115. (possibly this print) Fedja Anzelewsky, translation by Heide Grieve, Dürer: His Art and Life, New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1980. Walter Strauss, Intarglio Prints of Albrecht Dürer: Engravings, Etching and Drypoints, New York: Kennedy Galleries Inc., 1975, pp.113-120. Heinrich Wölfflin, translation by Alastair and Heide Grieve, The Art of Albrecht Dürer, Phaidon, 1971, pp.205-210. Iran Fenyo, Albrecht Dürer, Dudapest: Szikra, Budapest, 1956, pp.53-45. Erwin Panofsky, The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1955, pp.154-157.
Provenance
Pierre Mariette (1634-1716, Lugt 1790), Paris; Robert Stayner Holford (1808-1892, Lugt 2242), London and Westonbirt, Gloucester; sold by Christie's London, July 11, 1893, lot 100; V. Mayer (1831-1918); Theo van Rysselberghe (1862-1926, Lugt 2538), Paris; Henry Graves, Jr. (1868-1953), New York; sold by American Art Association, New York, April 3, 1936, lot 10; Kennedy Galleries, New York; sold to Adolph Weil Jr. and Jean Weil, February 26, 1970; given to present collection 2013.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch (1803), Vol. VII: 76.60; Meder (1932): 59; Strauss (1973): 77
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