MONTAGNA. Saint Jerome penitent in the desert.

Issue of the XIX century. Benedetto Montagna, son and perhaps pupil of Bartolomeo, was active as an engraver and painter. His pictorial work has always been considered modest, while his engraving production, defined by about fifty burins, is important. He mainly depicted sacred and mythological scenes, often inspired by previous masters or reworking compositions by Dürer. The criticism identifies three periods in his engravings, to be recognized for the progressive differences in the size of the characters depicted, for the care for the backgrounds and of course for some differences in the technique. The print cataloged here is placed in the intermediate period: under the influence of Dürer.