$764
Northern School, 16th Century Style Saint Jerome in His Study. Unsigned, identified within the composition. Oil on panel, 18 1/2 x 15 in., framed. Condition: Repaired vertical splits to panel, retouched, losses, craquelure. N.B. This composition borrows elements from several famous images of the church father, including those by Joos van Cleve, Albrecht Dürer and Pieter Coecke van Aelst. Each shows the saint as the consummate scholar, seated in his study before a book, leaning on his right hand and pointing to a skull with his left.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2007-01-26