Spanish Old Master Drawings
Saint Jerome
Maria Agustina de Azcona y Balanza
(Pamplona, 1755 – Logroño, 1808)
- Pencil on paper
- 320 x 245 mm
- Signed: ‘Maria Agustina / Azcona y Balanza’ (in ink, lower right angle).
- Inscribed: ‘Jacobus palma Inuent. Iusto Sadeler excudit / Vir pietatis amans mollis folatia vite, / Fallaces carnis deliciasq / Et solum casto meditatur pectore Christum, / Hinc sibi presidium subsidiumq petens.' (ink, lower margin). Situated in 'Pamplona', (ink, lower left angle).
