Saint Jerome in the Desert
Date:
1450/1464
Medium:
Oil on oak panel
Dimensions:
9 7/8 × 12 1/8 inches (25.08 × 30.8 cm)
Credit Line:
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb
Object number:
46.359
St. Jerome, in a scarlet robe, seated before the opening of a cave in the midst of a rocky landscape. He has laid his book aside to remove a thorn from the paw of a lion seated next to him at the right. Upper left background, another view of St. Jerome in a hair shirt, kneeling on the ground with his hand on a book and his eyes turned upward.
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