Saint Jerome
Saint Jerome
- Artist
- Pier Francesco Sacchi
- Artist Dates
- 1485-1528
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Saint Jerome
- Date
- c. 1515
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 96.5 x 38.1 cm (38 x 15 in)
- K Number
- K1077X
- Repository
- Kress Foundation
- Notes
Provenance
(Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955] Rome-Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 16 July 1930 as North Italian School; gift 1936 to the Wichita Art Association, no. S-23-I.
Catalogue Entry
Pier Francesco Sacchi
Saint Jerome
K1077X
Wichita, Kans., Wichita Art Association (S-23-1), since 1936. Wood. 38 x 15 in. (96.5 x 38.1 cm.). Condition not checked since 1936. The coarse figure type, with its emphasis on anatomical details, and the landscape setting, with its delineation of veins in the rocks and the grain of the wood, are paralleled in Sacchi's signed paintings:(1) his Crucifixion, for example, in the Berlin Museum, dated 1514, and his Four Doctors of the Church, in the Louvre, dated 1516. K1077X may be assigned to about the same date. Provenance: Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1930.
References
(1) K1077X has been attributed (in ms. opinions) to Sacchi by G. Fiocco, R. Longhi, R. van Marle, W. E. Suida, and A. Venturi, and to the early sixteenth-century Lombard School by F. M. Perkins.