Saint Jerome in a Landscape

Description

Domenico Campagnola helped to establish a specialized collector’s market for landscape drawings, building upon the legacy of his father, Giulio Campagnola, and Titian. Like Titian, Domenico’s works emphasize God’s power as expressed through the natural world. Hermit Saint Jerome, at lower left, sits in spiritual contemplation within a dynamic landscape rendered with Domenico’s distinctive linear style, complete with rustic houses, humble tree groves, and grand distant vistas. Independent drawings (drawings made as works of art in and of themselves) were a new category of drawing advanced by Domenico and others.

Provenance

Sir George Donaldson (d. 1925) (according to Agnew).; (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, England), sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (?–1929); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 31, 1929–)

Saint Jerome in a Landscape

Domenico Campagnola

c. 1530

Accession Number

1929.557

Medium

pen and brown ink

Dimensions

Sheet: 24.5 x 36.5 cm (9 5/8 x 14 3/8 in.); Secondary Support: 31.3 x 43.3 cm (12 5/16 x 17 1/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund