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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.
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
