Description
The Last Communion of Saint Jerome shows the aged saint kneeling at the right before clerics gathered at the left. A priest extends his arm with the wafer, while other robed figures stand behind the central exchange. The pale, broadly open sheet gives that small action a clear focus, allowing the brown ink’s changing weight to connect the company without surrounding it with a densely finished setting.
The sheet is attributed to Botticelli’s workshop and tentatively dated around 1491–1503. That qualification preserves the distinction between a studio drawing and a work assigned directly to the master. Traces of black chalk remain beneath the ink, allowing the composition to retain signs of its construction. The scene’s interest lies in how a devotional encounter can be organized through bodily relationships, adjacent gestures and varying densities of drawn tone.
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