Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

This composition is one of at least four autograph and studio variations of Jacopo Bassano’s altarpiece of 1562, showing the Crucifixion with Saints in the Museo Civico, Treviso; two autograph replicas are recorded in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, and in the collection of Counts Giacomo and Ernesto Suardo, Bergamo, respectively; and a studio reproduction of fine quality is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The versions differ primarily in their treatment of the landscape behind the figure of the saint, as well as in his positioning within his surroundings.