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Saint Jerome in a Landscape

Image credit: The National Gallery, London

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An elderly man kneels in landscape, beating his sunken and bleeding chest with a stone. He gazes up at a Crucifix attached to a tree, on which hangs a painted figure of Christ. This is Saint Jerome, hermit and translator of the Bible. His cardinal’s robes and hat lie discarded behind him. The rocky and wooded landscape is presumably the wilderness to which he fled and where he beat his chest when tempted by sinful thoughts. According to legend, while there he pulled a thorn out of a lion’s paw. It remained his faithful companion until his death – here it lies beside him like a pet dog. The tower behind could be Bethlehem, where Jerome settled in the year 386. This subject was very popular in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

Saint Jerome in a Landscape

Date

perhaps about 1501

Medium

Oil on oak

Measurements

H 35.3 x W 23.7 cm

Accession number

NG2596

Acquisition method

Salting Bequest, 1910

Work type

Painting

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