1489
oil
canvas
From the collection of Walters Art Museum
Saint Jerome in the Wilderness is a 1489 oil by Pinturicchio, a Early Renaissance work, depicting Jerome, held at Walters Art Museum.
Saint Jerome in the Desert is a 149.8 by 106 centimetres oil on panel painting by Pinturicchio, executed c. 1475-1480 and showing Jerome. It is one of the earliest dated paintings attributed to the artist and was produced just after his contributions to the Miracles of St Bernardino series (1473). It is recorded as being in the Bartoccini family collection in Perugia before entering the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, where it remained until it was sold in 1915. Henry Walters acquired it from the art dealer Luigi Grasse in 1916 on the advice of Bernard Berenson. In 1931 it formed part of the…
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Pinturicchio, or Pintoricchio (US: , Italian: ; born Bernardino di Betto; 1454–1513), also known as Benetto di Biagio or Sordicchio, was an Italian Renaissance painter.
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