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Saint Jerome and Saint Catherine of Alexandria Standing in a Landscape

Girolamo da Treviso the YoungerLinkedCulture matchlcp-d65f9d1e85a5

Date: c. 1530
Medium: pen and ink, gray wash, and white heightening over black chalk on prepared buff colored paper
Culture: Italy
Department: Drawings
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 707479

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Girolamo da Treviso the Younger created this drawing as a preparatory design for a painting while working in Bologna at the Church of Santissimo Salvatore. The type of composition is known as a sacre conversazione (sacred conversation). Invented in Venice, this genre featured saints within expansive landscapes sharing a contemplative presence. Saint Jerome’s attribute, a lion, is loosely sketched with brush and ink, while the figures are carefully composed with a mix of ink, ink wash, and white highlights on colored paper, giving them a monumental, sculptural appearance. After working in Bologna from 1523 to 1538, the artist was invited to the court of King Henry VIII of England, where he became a military engineer and was killed during the English siege of Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1544.

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Credit line: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Provenance: Padre Sebastiano Resta (1635-1714), Rome (L.2992a) (Lansdowne manuscript, (inscribed) no. 182: 'delle più belle cose di Giovanni de' Vecchi da Borgo') | Giovanni Matteo Marchetti, bishop of Arezzo (1647-1704) | Lord John Somers (1650-1716), Worcester (L.2981) | 1717: his sale, London, 1717 | Jonathan Richardson Sr. (1665-1745), London (L.2183), on his mount, with his inscription lower center: Pellegrino da Bologna (i.e., Pellegrino Tibaldi) | Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), London (L.2364) | 1985: sale, London, Christie's, 10 April 1985, lot 25 (as attributed to Pellegrino Tibaldi) | Ian Duncan (bears his mark, not in Lugt) | with Thomas Williams Fine Art Ltd., London, where acquired by Diane A. Nixon in 2010 | 2026: Sotheby’s, New York, February 4, 2026, lot 4 | March 2, 2026–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH