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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Penitent St. Jerome

Sodoma
1477?-1549

Penitent St. Jerome

11 9/16 x 8 11/16 inches (295 x 220 mm; maximum dimensions)
Black chalk, with traces of white chalk, on paper.
1986.105

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Another drawing of the subject was in the Rudolf sale in 1963. It was formerly in the Spanocchi collection and has also tentatively been attributed to Sodoma.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "33".
Associated names
Spannocchi, former owner.
Calmann, Hans M., former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
C.R. Rudolf Collection, sale, London, Sotheby's, 21 May 1963, under lot 2.
Tuscan and Venetian Drawings of the Quattrocento from the Collection of Janos Scholz. Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967, no. 55.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 317.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department