A balding, bare-chested man with a long white beard kneels on a dirt ground to our right in front of a rocky cave opening in this vertical painting. The man holds a rock in one hand and looks up at a man hanging on a cross to the left. The kneeling man, Saint Jerome, has peach-colored skin and a fringe of gray hair. He has a rounded nose, deep-set eyes, a prominent brow, hollow cheekbones, and his lips are parted to reveal two teeth. His body is angled to our left, and he looks up in that direction with blue eyes. His sleeveless, long, powder-blue garment is taken off one shoulder to reveal…
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Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

Cima da Conegliano (Venetian, c. 1459 - 1517 or 1518)

c. 1500/1505

Medium
oil on panel transferred to canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 48 × 40 cm (18 7/8 × 15 3/4 in.) ; framed: 66.68 × 58.74 × 10.8 cm (26 1/4 × 23 1/8 × 4 1/4 in.)
Culture
Venetian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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