Saint Jerome in His Study

Artists

Dimensions

99.7 × 83.8 cm (39 1/4 × 33 in.) frame: 123.8 × 106.7 × 6.4 cm (48 3/4 × 42 × 2 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Possibly sold [through Galerie Stern, Düsseldorf, June 11, 1932, lot 136 (as by Joos van Cleve)]. [1] Joseph Warren, by 1942, by descent [2]; to Joseph Warren, Jr., 1946, by descent; to Howland Warren, Nahant, Massachusetts, Dr. Richard Warren, Dedham, Massachusetts, and Mrs. Grayson M. P. Murphy, New York, New York, 1957, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1961 Notes [1] The description of lot 136 is very similar to 1961.26, however, there are many versions of Saint Jerome by van Cleve and Quentin Metsys. The painting was not found in the Galerie Stern inventory compiled by the Max Stern Project [see: https://www.concordia.ca/arts/max-stern/missing-works/stern-inventory-1936-38.html] or in the 1937 sale of the Stern stock at Lempertz in Cologne. [2] The work was attributed to Quentin Massys (Metsys) when it arrived at the Fogg on long-term loan in 1942.