Saint Jerome Penitent [right panel]
c. 1509/1512
Artist, Netherlandish, c. 1478 - 1532


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 41
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on panel
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
painted surface: 86.7 x 24.5 cm (34 1/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
overall (panel): 86.7 x 25.3 cm (34 1/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
framed: 94.3 x 61.2 x 5.7 cm (37 1/8 x 24 1/8 x 2 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1952.5.40.b
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
John M. Romadka [d. 1898], Prague and Milwaukee, by 1858; his widow, Mrs. John M. Romadka [d. 1936]; their daughter, Mary Tekla Romadka, Pasadena, California.[1] (Duveen Brothers, New York, by 1945); purchased 1949 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1952 by exchange to NGA.
[1] Unverified. Provenance is as given in Duveen Art Galleries, An Exhibition of Flemish Paintings of the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries (New York, 1946), no. 8; and Colin Eisler, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian (Oxford, 1977), 78-81.
[2] See The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1852.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2010
Jan Gossaert's Renaissance, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The National Gallery, London, 2010-2011, not in London catalogue.
Bibliography
1907
Winkler, Friedrich. "Gossaert, Jan." In Thieme-Becker. 37 vols. Leipzig, 1907-1950: 2(1921):412.
1916
Friedländer, Max J. Von Eyck bis Bruegel. Berlin, 1916: 188.
1924
Friedländer, Max J. Die altniederländische Malerei 14 vols.,1924-1937. Berlin, 1930: 8:154, no. 22, pl. 23. (English ed., 14 vols., 1967-1976. Leiden, 1972: 8:93, 120, no. 22, pl. 21.)
1933
Held, Julius. "Overzicht der Litteratuur betreffende Nederlandsche Kunst." Oud Holland 50 (1933): 137-138.
Smits, K. De Ikonographie van de Nederlandsche Primitieven. Amsterdam, 1933: 187.
1945
Anon. "Old Masters Feature Flint Victory Show." The Art Digest 19 (15 September, 1945): 8, repro.
Breuning, Margaret. "Portraying St. Jerome." Art Digest 19 (15 March, 1945): 21.
Glück, Gustav. "Mabuse and the Development of the Flemish Renaissance." The Art Quarterly 8 (1945): 127, fig. 8.
Louchheim, Aline. "Saint Jerome. Variations on a Theme." Art News 44 (15-31 March, 1945): 10, 31, repro.
1951
Folie, Jacqueline. "Les Dessins de Jean Gossaert dit Mabuse." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 38 (appeared 1960) (1951): 84.
Frankfurter, Alfred. "Interpreting Masterpieces: Twenty-four Paintings from the Kress Collection." Art News 50 (1951): 114-115, repro. 109, 115.
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 198, no. 87, repro.
1952
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Interpreting Masterpieces: Twenty-four Paintings from the Kress Collection." Art News Annual 16 (1952): 114-115, repro. 109
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 281, repro.
1960
Broadley Hugh T. Flemish Painting in the National Gallery of Art (Booklet no. 5 in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC). Washington, 1960: 7, 28-29, color repro.
1961
Walker, John, Guy Emerson, and Charles Seymour. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 86, 87, 211, fig. 79.
Osten, Gert von der. "Studien zu Jan Gossaert." De Artibus Opuscula XL. Essays in Honor of Erwin Panofsky. 2 vols. New York, 1961: 457, fig. 1.
1962
Winkler, Friedrich. "Aus der ersten Schaffenzeit des Jan Gossaert." Pantheon 20 (1962): 150-151, fig. 11.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 304, repro.
1965
Bruyn, Josua. "The Jan Gossaert Exhibition in Rotterdam and Bruges." The Burlington Magazine 107 (1965): 463.
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 60.
Jean Gossaert dit Mabuse. Exh. cat. Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Groeningemuseum, Bruges, 1965: 53.
1968
Cuttler, Charles D. Northern Painting, from Pucelle to Bruegel: Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Centuries. New York, 1968: 428.
Herzog, Sadja. "Jan Gossaert called Mabuse (ca. 1478-1532): A Study of his Chronology with a Catalogue of his Works." Ph.D. diss., Bryn Mawr College, 1968: 60-62, 210-213, no. 5, pl. 6.
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 52, repro.
The Picture Gallery. Summary Catalogue of Paintings in the Dahlem Museum. Berlin, 1968: 51, no. 551A.
1969
Osten, Gert von der, and Horst Vey. Painting and Sculpture in Germany and the Netherlands 1500 to 1600. Harmondsworth, 1969: 156.
1970
Herzog, Sadja. "Gossaert, Italy and the National Gallery's Saint Jerome Penitent." Studies in the History of Art 3 (1969-70):59-73, figs. 1-5.
1972
Hand, John Oliver. Joos van Cleve and the Saint Jerome in the Norton Gallery and School of Art. West Palm Beach, 1972: unpaginated, fig. 2.
1974
Kuretsky, Susan. "Rembrandt's Tree Stump: An Iconographic Attribute of St. Jerome." The Art Bulletin 56 (1974): 573-574, fig. 4.
1975
Gemäldegalerie Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Katalog der ausgestellten Gemälde des 13.-18. Jahrhunderts. Berlin, 1975: 179-180, no. 551A.
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 156, repro.
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 134, figs. 137, 138.
1977
Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 78-81, figs. 73-75.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 135, no.132, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 181, repro.
1986
Hand, John Oliver and Martha Wolff. Early Netherlandish Painting. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, 1986: 99-103, repro. 100.
Inscriptions
Falsely inscribed center right on a small stone: AD (in ligature)
Wikidata ID
Q20175151