About This Artwork

Antwerp

Landscape with the Penitent Saint Jerome, 1530/40

Oil on panel
15 x 21 7/16 in. (38.1 x 54.5 cm); painted surface 14 15/16 x 21 3/8 in. (37.9 x 54.3 cm)
Robert A. Waller Memorial Fund, 1953.27

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts, A Tour of Famous Cities, 1952, no. 33.

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Chicago, 1961, p. 351.

Herbert Friedmann, A Bestiary for Saint Jerome: Animal Symbolism in European Religious Art, Washington, D.C., 1980, p. 338.

Ownership History

Comte de Bousies, Brussels [according to a fact sheet in the curatorial file, presumably provided by Knoedler; an annotation on the mount of a photograph in the Friedländer Archive, at the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague, supports this provenance, though the name is transcribed as “de Bourier”]. Probably Eric-Emil Lyndhurst, Brussels, by January 1950 [the mount of the photograph mentioned above indicates that Friedländer’s opinion was provided for “Lyndhurst, Brussels” on January 5, 1950; whether the collector and dealer Eric-Emil Lyndhurst owned the picture or handled it as an agent is unclear; it was not among his stock confiscated during World War II, according to letter of 22 January, 2002 from Bart Eeman, Belgian Ministry of Economic Affairs, in curatorial file]. Sale, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, May 21, 1951, no. 115, pl. 7, as Patinir. Knoedler, New York, by 1952 [Lent by Knoedler to 1952 exhibition]; sold to the Art Institute, 1953.