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Landscape with St. Jerome (London)

Landscape with St. Jerome (London)

Object type Painting
Genre Religious
Date ca. 1595
Dimensions 25 x 35 cm
Support Copper
Medium Oil
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #300
Location/Most Recent Sale London, Johnny van Haeften Ltd., 1985
Tags Resting, House, Forest, Mountain, Hermits, New Testament, Saint
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #300
Stefan Bartilla
April 20, 2014

Copy after a print by Johann Sadeler I after the design by Maerten de Vos from the series Solitudo Sive Vitae Patrum Eremicolarum. 1583-1588.
Hollstein, Sadeler, 406; Hollstein, Maerten de Vos, 993.

URL:http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.168581

E.A. Honig
December 13, 2015

This is such a literal copy after the print, with such a large-scale single figure, that the attribution to Jan does not seem that secure to me in spite of the size and support which are his standard from this time. Jan was certainly copying other related prints, but the copies are different. I am provisionally accepting this: I can't suggest another attribution but it's a problematic work.