Art, literature & history
Saint Jerome in the Cave
1644
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 28.3 x 24.5 cm (11 1/8 x 9 5/8 in.) sheet: 29.7 x 25.7 cm (11 11/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1990.11.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Ferdinand Bol. Saint Jerome in the Cave. Ferdinand Bol; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ferdinand_Bol,_Saint_Jerome_in_the_Cave,_1644,_NGA_71381.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Saint Jerome in the Cave — Ferdinand Bol. 1644.
Medium: etching and drypoint on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 28.3 x 24.5 cm (11 1/8 x 9 5/8 in.) sheet: 29.7 x 25.7 cm (11 11/16 x 10 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1990.11.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.