A sinewy older man, his pale skin mostly exposed, sits on a stone low to the ground facing a table on our right in the center of this vertical painting. His gray hair is cropped short, and he has a graying, long beard. He faces our right in profile, and has a hooked nose, deep-set eyes, and the eyebrow we can see is bushy. The man's bare chest has a red wound flecked with darker red gashes. A smooth and shiny, rose-pink cloth drapes across his thighs and falls around his bare knees, its soft folds highlighted in white. A translucent white undergarment peeks out from beneath it. In the man’s…
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Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

painter Veronese (Venetian, 1528 - 1588)

Possibly painter Benedetto Caliari (Venetian, 1538 - 1598)

c. 1575/1585

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 108 x 84.1 cm (42 1/2 x 33 1/8 in.) ; framed: 142.1 x 116.5 x 8.3 cm (55 15/16 x 45 7/8 x 3 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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