Landscape with Saint Jerome

Landscape with Saint Jerome is an oil painting on panel attributed to Cornelis Massijs. The work was created in 1547 and first documented in the artist’s oeuvre as a religious landscape. It entered the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, where it remains on public display.

A historical exhibition of early Flemish primitives in Bruges featured the painting, highlighting its significance in the regional art market. The dimensions of the work are 25 cm in height and 31 cm in width.

Landscape with Saint Jerome is held in the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, part of the Vlaamse Kunstcollectie. The work was included in the Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges, an exhibition devoted to early Flemish painting.

The panel measures 25 cm in height by 31 cm in width and is executed in oil on panel, consistent with the documented material and dimensions for this Cornelis Massijs painting dated 1547.

Landscape with Saint Jerome, painted by Cornelis Massijs in 1547, has been recognized for its distinctive blend of Northern Renaissance detail and emotive landscape composition. The work entered the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, where it was featured in the 19th-century exhibition Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges, contributing to renewed scholarly interest in Massijs' oeuvre. Contemporary assessments note its influence on later Flemish landscape painters, who cited its atmospheric treatment of terrain and integration of religious narrative within natural settings

Cornelis Massijs, a Flemish painter active in mid‑16th‑century Antwerp, completed the oil work Landscape with Saint Jerome in 1547. The composition places the saint amid a rugged terrain of trees, mountains and distant structures, rendered in a restrained palette of greens, browns and grays. The painting is part of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp’s collection.