Cleveland Museum of Art
Saint Jerome
Jusepe de RiberaLinkedCulture matchlcp-5e4f78d3b6f5
- Date
- c. 1638–40
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 136680
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Saint Jerome (about ad 347–420) translated biblical texts into Latin. Although he sometimes appears as a scholar in his study, Ribera represents him here as a penitent who withdrew to the desert, beating his chest with a stone to emulate Christ’s suffering and contemplating a skull symbolizing human vanity. Working in Naples, Ribera enthusiastically adapted Caravaggio’s characteristic use of light and dark and naturalistic models. Ribera signed the painting on the spine of the book in which Jerome will write.
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- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Provenance
- 1961–present: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. | 1960–1961: (F. Kleinberger & Co., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art). | until 1960: (Alessandro Morandotti, Zurich, sold to F. Kleinberger in 1960). | until c. 1960?: Private collection, Italy, probably consigned to Alessandro Morandotti.
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