THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Attributed to Joos van Cleve (active 1511-d.1540/1)

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Attributed to Joos van Cleve (active 1511-d.1540/1)

Saint Jerome

on panel, unframed
20¾ x 18 1/8in. (52.5 x 46cm.)
Provenance
Anon. Sale, Christie's, 18 Nov. 1955, lot 99, as 'Q. Messys' (unsold at 65gns.); reoffered, 16 March 1956, lot 97, as 'Metsys' (100gns. to Makart)
Anon. Sale, Christie's, 28 March 1969, lot 68, as Joos van Cleeve (1,100gns.)

Lot Essay

For other versions, see M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, IX, Part I, ed. H. Pauwels, Leyden and Brussels, 1972, p. 58, no. 39, pl. 57.

The pose of Saint Jerome is loosely based on the picture executed by Albrecht Dürer in Antwerp in 1521 for a Portuguese patron and now in the Museum Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon

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