Votive panel or altarpiece for a Hieronymite church: Saint Jerome in his Study

Artist Master of San Jacopo a Mucciana Italian, active in Florence 1380–1400

Datecirca 1385–1395

MediumTempera on panel, with gold leaf

Dimensions35 1/8 x 20 1/8 in. (89.2 x 51.1 cm)
Frame: 43 1/2 x 27 1/8 in. (110.5 x 68.9 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.16

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ProvenanceRavasco collection, Milan; Paolo Paolini, Rome; his sale, American Art Galleries, New York, Dec.10-11, 1924, no. 34 (as Guariento); Contini Bonacossi, Rome; Kress acquisition, 1930; gift of the Kress Foundation 1961.Published ReferencesPreliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1941), cat. no. 162 (as Tommaso da Modena).

The Washington Star (October 28, 1945) (as Tommaso da Modena).

W. E. Suida, Critica d'Arte 9 (May 1950), 58 (as Jacopo di Paolo da Bologna).

The New Bulletin 5 (1955), 25f.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960) 44, illus. (b-w) 45 (as Jacopo di Paolo da Bologna).

Enzo Carli, Pittura pisano del trecento, Vol. 2 (Milano: Aldo Martello Editore, 1961) 90 (as Cecco di Pietro).

Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samual H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XIII-XV Century, Vol. 1 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1968) 73, illus. fig. 198 (as Cecco di Pietro).

Herbert Friedmann, A Bestiary for St. Jerome: Animal Symbolism in European Religious Art (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1980), 41, 44, illus. 43.

Bernhard Ridderbos, Saint and Symbol: Images of Saint Jerome in early Italian Art (Groningen, The Netherlands: Bouma's Boekhuis, 1984), 19, illus. fig. 8 (as Cecco di Pietro).

Introduction to the Collections, rev.ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 160 (as Cecco di Pietro).

M. Boskovits, "Cecco di Pietro," in Dizionario biografico italiano, Vol. 9 (Rome, 1979), 284-5.

Perri Lee Roberts, et al, Sacred Treasures: Early Italian Paintings from Southern Collections (exhibition catalogue) (Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, 2002), cat. no. 20, illus. (color) 103 and front cover.

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art [newsletter] (Spring 2003), illus. (color) cover.

Alive Now (July/August 2003), illus. (color) cover.

Entre Tradition et Modernité: Peinture italienne des XIVe et XVe siècles (Paris: Galerie G. Sarti, 2008), briefly discussed 84, 86, English translation 89, illus. (b-w) 86, fig. 1 (as Cecco di Pietro).

Perri Lee Roberts, Corpus of Early Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections: The South, Vol. 3 (Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2009), discussed 646, illus. (b-w) 647.

Michael McFee, "Portrait of the Poet as St. Jerome" in “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art,” edited by Helena Feder (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), illus (color) 88.Exhibition HistoryWashington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 1941, cat. no. 16 (as Tommaso da Modena).

Bologna, Italy, "Mostra della Pittura Bolognese del '300," 1950.

Staten Island, NY. [TITLE??] Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, December 1955 (as Jacopo di Paolo da Bologna).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Methods of the Masters: Techniques in Art," Egg Tempera Painting on Panel, October 2, 1986-August 30, 1987, cat. no. 1, illus.

Athens, GA, Georgia Museum of Art, "Sacred Treasures: Early Italian Paintings from Southern Collections," October 12, 2002-January 5, 2003; Birmingham, AL, Birmingham Museum of Art, January 26-April 13, 2002; Sarasota, FL, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, May 31-August 10, 2003, cat. no. 20, illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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