Studio of Wolf Huber (Feldkirch circa 1485-1553 Passau) Saint Jerome in prayerStudio of Wolf Huber (Feldkirch circa 1485-1553 Passau)Saint Jerome in prayer bears monogram 'Aa' (lower centre)pen and brown ink on paper, heightened with white, watermark serpent around a cross (close to Briquet 13847)18.7 x 11.7cm (7 3/8 x 4 5/8in).ProvenanceCollection Landau Finaly (L. 1334c (on a separate label) Sale, Christie's, London, 4 July 1984, lot 136 (as follower of Wolf Huber).Sale, Christie's, London, 9 December 1986, lot 344 (as follower of Wolf Huber)Private Collection, USALiteratureF. Winzinger, Wolf Huber: Das Gesamtwerk, Munich and Zurich, 1979, vol. I, no. 39, vol. II, ill. (as Wolf Huber).A.J. Elen, Missing Old Master Drawings from the Franz Koenigs Collection , The Hague, 1989, under no. 225The present drawing was published by Franz Winzinger in 1979 as by Wolf Huber (see literature). Winzinger includes The Crucifixion, dated 1514, previously in the Franz Koenigs Collection, now in the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum (Inv. D.I. 112) as a copy of the present sheet (see: ibid, cat. no. 39a). Another drawing of the same subject, signed and dated 1517, now in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (Inv. 4325) shows Huber's distinctive style and meticulous hatching on the cross.Modern scholarship has advanced in recent years and many works accepted by Frans Winzinger in 1979 have now been given to artists in Huber's circle or to his followers, who often produced extremely fine copies of his drawings.