Art, literature & history
Saint Jerome Reading
1500/1538
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate/sheet: 10.4 × 6 cm (4 1/8 × 2 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1927.2115
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Albrecht Altdorfer. Saint Jerome Reading. Albrecht Altdorfer; Art Institute of Chicago; The Charles Deering Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Saint Jerome Reading — Albrecht Altdorfer. 1500/1538.
Medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper. Dimensions: Image/plate/sheet: 10.4 × 6 cm (4 1/8 × 2 3/8 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.