A man hangs on a cross nestled into the splayed opening of a splintered, barren tree in a rocky landscape in this narrow, vertical composition, which is painted entirely in black and gray. The man’s hands are nailed to the ends of the wide crossbeam of the cross, and his overlapping feet are nailed to the vertical beam. He wears a ring of thorns on his head and a loincloth across his hips. A voluminous cloth lies just beyond the tree, and farther back on the angular rocks are a lion and mule. A cliff rises steeply to our left and a body of water to our right leads back to a castle-like…
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Saint Jerome Penitent [left panel]

Jan Gossaert (Netherlandish, c. 1478 - 1532)

c. 1509/1512

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 86.7 x 24.5 cm (34 1/8 x 9 5/8 in.) ; overall (panel): 86.7 x 25.3 cm (34 1/8 x 9 15/16 in.) ; framed: 94.3 x 61.2 x 5.7 cm (37 1/8 x 24 1/8 x 2 1/4 in.)
Culture
Netherlandish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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