A man kneels, holding a rock to his bare chest, in a rocky landscape in this tall, vertical painting. The scene is painted entirely in white and gray. The man, Saint Jerome, takes up the bottom half of the narrow panel. He faces our left almost in profile and looks up and off in that direction. He is clean-shaven with rounded, sagging cheeks, deep-set eyes, and wispy, curly hair. A robe with deep, angular folds is open across his chest and puddles on the ground around his feet. He holds a rock to his chest with one muscular arm, and the other hangs by his side holding another rock. A…
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Saint Jerome Penitent [right 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
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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