This dark brown wooden statue of Saint Jerome stands on a very small round base hardly visible under the bottom of his cloak. He is dressed in a large brim flat hat and long cloak with hood and broad notched collar. He is wearing both the hood and the hat as he looks outward, but slightly downward. His eyes are very lightly carved, so appear vacant. He holds his right hand up close to his body and his sleeve billows around it. With his left hand, he holds up the heavy folds of his cloak which fall around his feet. With the same hand, he presses a book close to his body.
German, Upper Rhine
Saint Jerome,
about 1500
Lindenwood
,
62.2 cm (24 1/2 in.)
Object details
Accession number
S28e12.a
Primary Creator
German, Upper Rhine
Full title
Saint Jerome
Creation Date
about 1500
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the art dealer and restorer Hermann Einstein, Munich for 500 marks on 17 August 1897.
Dimensions
62.2 cm (24 1/2 in.)
Display Media
Lindenwood
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Chapel
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 256. (as Tyrolean, 15th century)Charles L. Kuhn. "German Late Gothic Sculpture in the Gardner Museum, Boston" in Wilhelm Reinhold Walter Koehler (ed.). Medieval Studies in Memory of A. Kingsley Porter (Cambridge, 1939), pp. 568-69, fig. 7. (as Lower Franconian School, related to Tilmann Riemenschneider, about 1510)Anneliese Harding. German Sculpture in New England Museums (Boston, 1972), pp. 42, 83, no. 55. (as Franconian, influenced by Riemenschneider, about 1500)Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 91, no. 120. (as Southwest German, Upper Rhine (?), about 1500-1510)Alan Chong et al. (eds.) Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2003), p. 31. (as German, Upper Rhine, about 1500)
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Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.