Saint Jerome in his Study

Artists

Dimensions

sight: 163.4 x 118.2 cm (64 5/16 x 46 9/16 in.) frame: 184.5 x 136.4 x 12 cm (72 5/8 x 53 11/16 x 4 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Likely the panel commissioned by the Notaries Guild of Siena for the decoration of their headquarters in that city, and for which Matteo di Giovanni received four payments from the Guild, dated 7 June and 30 June 1481 and c. 30 September 1482. [1] Likely Antonio Piccolomini Bellanti (1771-1837), Pian dei Mantellini, Siena, before 1835. [2] Panciatichi, Florence. Cecconi, Florence, by 1904 [3], to; William Hathaway Forbes, 1905, by descent; to Edward Waldo Forbes, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1966. 1. G. Fattorini, "Matteo di Giovanni's 'St. Jerome' for the Notaries' Guild of Siena," in "The Burlington Magazine" 154 (1312) July 2012: pp. 468-475. Fattorini argues that the Art Museums' panel of Saint Jerome can be conclusively indentified as the work mentioned in documents of 1482 that record 4 payments made by the Notaries’ Guild of Siena to Matteo di Giovanni for an image of their patron, Saint Jerome, to decorate the interior of their headquarters in the city. This conclusion is based on stylistic grounds that link the Saint Jerome to other works known to have been commissioned by the Guild for their headquarters. 2. Ibid., p. 470, a "S. Girolamo figura quasi di grandezza al naturale, a pie' del quale è il nome dell'artista [Matteo di Giovanni]" which can be associated with the Fogg panel is recorded in the Bellanti collection in Ettore Romagnoli's "Biografia cronologica de' belleartisti senesi" of 1835. Interestingly, the work is absent from the list of Bellanti works sold in 1838 to pay of the late Antonio Piccolomini's debts. 3. Cecconi, Florence, is listed as the owner in the 1904 exhibition catalogue for "Mostra dell'Antica Art Senese"