25.4

Datec. 1435

MediumOil on linen paper on oak panel

ClassificationsPaintings

Dimensions5 1/4 × 8 1/8 inches (13.34 × 20.64 cm)

Credit LineCity of Detroit Purchase

Object number25.4

DescriptionSaint Jerome, at left wearing a reddish-brown garment and hat, seated at a reading desk, an open book before him. On the table, which is covered with a green cloth, are an hourglass, a letter in Latin and a rosary. Facing forward, and reclining on the floor in front of the desk in the lower right foreground, is a lion. On the open bookshelves, behind the desk are stacks of books, a blue and gold jar, a glass bottle and an astrolabe.

On View

On view

Locations

Exhibition Demo Museum (Hanover Square), Level 3, European Paintings, Gallery 3

ProvenanceGermany, Private Collection; Berlin, Paul Bottenwieser (dealer), 1924-25, from whom acquired by the DIA. Possible provenance proposed by E. Panofsky: painted for Cardinal Niccolò Albergati (d.1443); acquired by his estate executor Tommaso Parentucelli (later Pope Nicholas V); acquired by Medici family (described in inventory of 1492). See also proposed provenance in Eidelberg & Rowlands, 1994.