Saint Jerome Praying in a Landscape. , 1550?60, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, on paper tinted with a light brown wash, 8 3/8 x 6 9/16 in. (21. 2 x 16. 6 cm), Drawings, Attributed to Niccol簷 dell' Abate (Italian, Modena 1509?1571 Fontainebleau (? ) ), This expressive, highly finished composition of strongly inflected 'chiaroscuro' portrays a muscular nude figure of Saint Jerome seated within a cave, and surrounded by his various attributes: the lion, the cardinal's hat, the crucifix, the human skull of the memento mori, and the stones of self-mortification