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Saint Jerome with his Lion,
ca. 1500
Workshop of Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci), 1450–1523; born Città della Pieve, Italy; died Fontignano, Italy
x1944-266
Representations of Jerome as a penitent hermit in a rocky setting, intended to evoke his four-year retreat in the Syrian desert, first appeared as a subject of visual art in early fifteenth-century Italy. The composition of this highly finished drawing is identical to that of a panel painting and related study by the prolific Umbrian artist Perugino, and therefore the drawing has been attributed to his workshop. The emphasis on the figure’s muscular torso reflects the importance of anatomical studies in Italian Renaissance artistic education.
Information
Title
Saint Jerome with his Lion
Dates
ca. 1500
Maker
Workshop of Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)
Medium
Brush and brown ink and brown wash heightened with white on cream laid paper
Dimensions
30.3 x 14.4 cm (11 15/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1944-266
Inscription
Inscribed in pencil, lower right: Pietro Perggio[?]
Reference Numbers
Gibbons 477
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Thane; Esdaile;Flameng; Czeczowiczka.;
- Eine Wiener Sammlung: Ausstellung in Berlin W 10, Tiergartenstrasse 4: Versteigerung in Berlin W 10, Tiergartenstrasse 4 durch C.G. Boerner, Paul Graupe, (Leipzig: C.G. Boerner; Berlin: P. Graupe, 1930)., no. 117; pl. 33
- F. J. Mather, Jr., "Two Peruginesque drawings", Record of the Museum of Historic Art, Princeton University 5, no. 1 (Spring, 1946): p. 9-11., p. 9-11
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977)., Vol. 1: p. 198, no. 637 (illustrated in Vol. 2 under the same catalog number)
