Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
- Artist
- Follower of Pietro Perugino
- Artist Dates
- c. 1450-1523
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
- Date
- c. 1490/1500
- Medium
- tempera on poplar panel
- Dimensions
- 60 x 41.9 cm (23 5/8 x 16 1/2 in)
- K Number
- K498
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1939.1.280
- Notes
Provenance
Sir Thomas Gage Saunders Sebright, 8th bt. [1802-1864], Beechwood Park, Hertfordshire, by 1856; [1] by descent to Sir Giles Edward Sebright, 13th bt. [1896-1954], Beechwood Park; (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 2 July 1937, no. 139, as Venetian School); purchased by (Volterra, Florence) for (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence); sold October 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; [2] gift 1939 to NGA. [1] Gustav Friedrich Waagen, in _Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain...Visited in 1854 and 1856..._, London, 1857: 327, describes in Beechwood "a landscape, with St. Jerome on the right, who, with a stone in his left hand, is doing penance before a small crucifix fastened high upon a tree..." that he lists as "Raphael (?)" but which he concludes "[reminds] me most of Timoteo Viti." The provenance sometimes given for the panel, as having been in the "collection of Count B. Pinamonte, Ferrara," comes from the 1937 bill of sale between Contini-Bonacossi and the Kress Foundation (see note 2). According to Sir Ellis Waterhouse, this provenance is spurious (see note in Fern Rusk Shapley's hand, in NGA curatorial files). [2] The bill of sale from Contini-Bonacossi to the Kress Foundation, for this and several other paintings, is dated 20 October 1937 (copy in NGA curatorial files).