Saint Jerome
The original, as its museum records it
Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.
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About this painting
The saint's name is on the step, in capitals: .SS. HIERONYMVS. The painter's is on a slip of paper on the pilaster: Franciscus benalius, son of Pietro, dealer in cereals. Neither name held. Christie's sold the panel in 1805 as by Francesco di Ladi; a London sale in 1924 called it a St Francis by Crivelli; the 1951 Kress catalogue listed a St Anthony Abbot.
The Dizionario Biografico in 1966 called it a Saint Anthony, set in an architecture of mixed and veined marbles under an oval halo. Benaglio signed that architecture. Both names were on the panel all along.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, Washington, 'Saint Jerome', Francesco Benaglio, 1952.5.51 · National Gallery of Art, Washington, 'Saint Jerome', provenance and bibliography · National Gallery of Art, provenance index, Thomas Winstanley · National Gallery of Art, artist page, Francesco Benaglio · Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 8 (1966), 'BENAGLIO, Francesco' · Northbrook Provenance Research, 'Saint Jerome' (Benaglio) · Artsy, National Gallery of Art, 'Saint Jerome', Francesco Benaglio
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 25,860 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.