DrawingsFrench18th century

Saint Jerome in a Landscape

c. 1742

Artists

Jean-Baptiste-Marie PierreArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black ink and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

31.5 x 22.2 cm (12 3/8 x 8 3/4 in.)

Provenance

[Didier Aaron et Cie, Paris], sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, 1984 (inv. no. D-F-235), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1999

Related Artworks

Drawings

Palais de Chaillot; verso: Elevation of a Palace

Charles Percier, c. 1798-1804

Gray and tan wash over graphite on greenish antique laid paper; verso: graphite

18th-19th centuryFrench

Drawings

Dog and Squirrel; verso: Crane

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 18th century

Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Saint Charles Borromeo

Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1779

Black chalk with touches of black ink and graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount, framing lines in brown ink

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Two Studies of Elie-Catherine Freron; verso: Figure Studies

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, c. 1776

Graphite on cream antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Bust of a Young Woman Looking to the Left

François Boucher, 18th century

Colored chalks on buff antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Studies for Two Fountains, One with Standing Female Nude and Water Jars and One with Two Crouching Female Nudes and Water Jar

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 18th century

Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Two Pheasants; verso: blank

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 18th century

Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

River God

Unidentified Artist, 18th century

Red chalk on cream antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Grotesque Head

Bernard Toro, 18th century

Red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to a decorated mount

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Reveling Satyr, Maenad, and Children; Study for Architectural Frieze with Mythological Figures and Goats

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 18th century

Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

A Boy with a Finger to His Lips

Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié, 18th century

Red chalk counterproof heightened with white chalk on toned tan antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Standing Duck Looking to the Left; verso: blank

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 18th century

Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench