The penitent Saint Jerome
XVI century. Pencil, Pencil ground, Grey-brown ink on paper.Not on display
This and the drawing D01884 are identical in composition, and the only significant difference between them is that the present drawing has more shading. Possibly connected with the composition of St. Jerome in the Desert, one of the frescoes painted by Cambiaso and his School on the lateral walls of the Capilla Mayor of the basilica at El Escorial.
Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracc: a century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Virginia, Art Services International, 2008, p.255
