Jan LIEVENS
1607 - 1674
Saint Jérôme
Original etching
248 × 213 mm, trimmed to the platemark or lightly outside the platemark
Very fine impression of the third state (on 5), with the book and the jar visible in the niche, with the leaves and the saint’s head reworked and before the hatchings covering the address Franc. Van Wyngaerde ex., tiny restorations in the right corners, horizontal fold at reverse, smalls holes in the lower right part
Watermark: Coat of arms (difficult to identify)
Provenance: Pierre II Mariette (annotated with pen and brown ink on the reverse P. Mariette 1672, Lugt 1789)
Reference: Hollstein 15 iii/v