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Source Description
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 <em>sacre conversazione</em> (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.
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Document identity
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707479
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Saint Jerome and Saint Catherine of Alexandria Standing in a Landscape
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707479
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drawing
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Saint Jerome and Saint Catherine of Alexandria Standing in a Landscape
description
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 <em>sacre conversazione</em> (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.
date
c. 1530
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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707476
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Drawing
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1
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Sheet: 24.3 x 22 cm (9 9/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
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Italy
accession
2026.11
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pen and ink, gray wash, and white heightening over black chalk on prepared buff colored paper
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Saint Jerome and Saint Catherine of Alexandria Standing in a Landscape, c. 1530. Girolamo da Treviso the Younger (Italian, 1497–1544). Pen and ink, gray wash, and white heightening over black chalk on prepared buff colored paper; sheet: 24.3 x 22 cm (9 9/16 x 8 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2026.11
collection
DR - Italian
inscriptions
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Collector’s mark, lower left: Lugt 2364 (Sir Joshua Reynolds)
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Collector’s mark, lower left: Ian Duncan (not in Lugt)
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bears inscription lower left, in the hand of Lord John Somers: l 182
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bears an old attribution on the Richardson mount: Pelligrino da Bologna
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on verso of mount in ink (in the hand of Jonathan Richardson, Sr.): Pellegrini Tibaldy eleve de Daniel de Volterre [crossed out in pencil]/ ne a Boulongne [sic] 1522 mort en 1592
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below, on verso, in pencil in an unknown hand: coll. Lord Somers raisonnablement provenant / de Padre Reste / Reynolds / le dessin peut-être date autour 1550 / dans le style des dessins pour la decoration du Palais Sacchetti
didYouKnow
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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Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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2026-05-29 09:18:52.048000
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707479
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DR - Italian
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pen and ink, gray wash, and white heightening over black chalk on prepared buff colored paper
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male
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