Devotional Plaque with Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

ca. 1550 (Renaissance)

12.7 cm 9.5 cm

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St. Jerome, the translator of the Bible into Latin, was often depicted as a hermit in his wilderness retreat, engaged in meditations on the cross. This exquisitely subtle example of reverse painting wonderfully exploits the luminosity for which the technique is valued. Light...

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Leon Gruel, Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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