Saint Jerome in His Study

Artist Stefan Lochner German, circa 1410–1451

Datecirca 1440

MediumOil on oak panel

Dimensions15 1/2 x 12 in. (39.4 x 30.5 cm)
Frame: 22 5/8 x 18 3/8 in. (57.5 x 46.7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object numberG.52.9.139

On View

On view

ProvenanceRev. John Fuller Russel, Greenhithe, Kent, England; Charles Butler, Esq., England; Dr. Richard van Schnitzler, Köln, Germany; Freifrau Edith van Schröder, Germany.Published ReferencesG. F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, Vol. 4 (London, 1857), 285-86 (as early Flemish school about 1430).

Der Cicerone 9 (1917), 364f (as Master of Haisterbach Altarpiece).

Max F. Friedländer, Katalog der Sammlung Kaufmann (Berlin, 1917), no. 130.

Feuer (1919), 2 (as Master of Haisterbach Altarpiece).

Eugen Lüthgen, Rheinische Kunst des Mittelalters aus Kölner Privatbesitz (Bonn: 1921), 99.

H. Reiners, "Ein neuer Lochner in Kölner Privatbesitz," Kölnische Volkszeitung (1922), no. 863 (as youthful work by Lochner).

O. H. Förster, "Ein Neuer Stephan Lochner," Der Cicerone 14 (1922), 968-71.

Egnid Beitz, Der Cicerone 15 (1923), 139ff.

E. Firmenich-Richartz, "Der Meister des Heiligen Hieronymus," Jahrbuch der Wallraf-Richartz-Gesellschaft 1 (1924), 90ff, 97.

H. Brockmann, Die Spätzeit der Kölner Malerschule, Forschungen zur Kunstgeschischte Westeuropas, Eugen Lüthgen, ed. (Bonn and Leipzig: 1924), no. 11.

H. Reiners, Die Kölner Malerschule (Mönchengladbach: 1925), 72, 308, illus. fig. 18.

O. H. Förster, "Lochner," Thieme-Becker Künstler-Lexikon, 23 (Leipzig: 1929), 307.

O. H. Förster, Die Sammlung Dr. Richard von Schnitzler (München: 1931), 22f, no. 4, pl. 4.

A. Stange, Deutsche Malerie der Gotik, Vol. 3 (Berlin: 1934-51), 97.

O. H. Förster, "Deutsche Kunst," Stefan Lochner, L. Roselius, ed. (Bremen: 1936), 3, illus. 121.

O. H. Förster, Stefan Lochner (Frankfurt-am-Main: 1938), 153, 177, illus. 9, 34, 35.

O. H. Förster, Stefan Lochner, 2nd ed. (Munich and Cologne: 1941), 135, 161f., illus. 9, 34, 35 (as collection of Freifrau von Schröder).

O. H. Förster, Stefan Lochner. 3rd ed. revised (Bonn: 1952), 124, 153f, Illus. 9, 34, 35 (as collection of heirs of Freifrau von Schröder).

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 169, illus. (b-w).

Pantheon VI (November-December 1962), 391, illus.

Charles W. Stanford, Jr., Masterpieces in the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 36, illus. (color).

F. Winkler, "Totentafel: Wilhelm R. Valentiner," Kunstchronik 12 (1959), 83.

R. Walbrath, "Stefan Lochner," Kindler's Malerei Lexikon, Vol. 4, L-Q (Zurich: Kindler Verlag, 1967), 183-190.

Ben. F. Williams, "A Raleigh, Caroline du Nord," L'Oeil 155 (November 1967), illus. (color) 7.

North Carolina Architect, 20th Anniversary North Carolina Museum of Art 1947-1967 (Raleigh, NC: The North Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 1967) 11. Artwork included without mention in writing.

Alfred Stange, Die deutschen Tafelbilder vor Dürer, 1 (München: Kritisches Verzeichnis, 1967), no. 90.

W. Stechow, "A Youthful Work by Stephan Lochner," Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Vol. 55, no. 10 (December 1968), 312, 314, ftnt. no. 14.

The Long View Journal, Raleigh (Spring 1969), illus. facing 48.

Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 12, illus. (color) 13.

Robert F. Phifer Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1973), 46, illus. (b-w) 47 and (color) cover.

Vor Stefan Lochner, Die Kölner Maler von 1300 bis 1430 (exhibition catalogue) (Cologne: Wallraf-Richartz Museum, 1974) cat. no. 51, illus. fig. 51.

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association (January 18, 1980), illus. (color) cover.

Herbert Friedman, A Bestiary for Saint Jerome: Animal Symbolism in European Religious Art (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1980), 38, illus. 41.

Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights (Berkley: University of California Press, 1983), 1-2, illus. frontispiece.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed. Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 163.

Rainer Budde, Köln und seine Maler: 1300-1500 (Cologne: Du Mont Buchverlag, 1986), no. 53, illus. (b-w) fig. 54, illus. (color) pl. 9.

Saints and Heroes (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1987), discussed 9, illus. (b-w) 8, fig. 6.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 146.

E. M. K. "Das Frühwerk Stefan Lochners," Kostenoise Sonderauscabe (December 2, 1993), illus.

Frank Günter Zehnder, Stefan Lochner: Meister zu Köln (exhibition catalogue) (Cologne: Wallraf-Richartz Museum, 1993), cat. no. 43.

Marta O. Renger, "Exhibition review: Cologne Stefan Lochner," Burlington Magazine (April 1994), 258, illus. fig. 57.

Susan Foister, and Susie Nash, eds., Robert Campin: New Directions in Scholarship (Brepols Publishers, 1996), 143-145, illus. (b-w) 144, illus. (color) pl. 50.

"Einige Voraussetzungen für das Werk Stefan Lochners," Sonderdruck aus dem Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 58 (1997), 239-245, illus. (b-w) 240, (infrared image) 244.

Rebecca Martin Nagy, entry for St. Jerome in His Study, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 81, illus. (color).

Brigitte Corley, Painting and Patronage in Cologne: 1300-1500 (Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2000), mentioned 159, 260, illus. (b-w infrared image) 138.

Julien Chapuis, Stefan Lochner: Image Making in Fifteenth-Century Cologne (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2004), cat. no. 19 (as Master of the Heisterbach Altarpiece(?)), discussed 246-51, 287-89, illus. (b-w) 247, (b-w infrared) 251, details (b-w infrared) 287.

Daniel Levine, "New Discoveries in Stefan Lochner's 'Saint Jerome in His Cell'," Sonderdruck aus dem Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch 65 (2004), 289-299, illus. 290, details 294, 295; infrared reflectogram 290, infrared details 291, 292.

Rebecca Martin Nagy and Dennis P. Weller, entry for St. Jerome in His Study, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 156, illus. (color) 157.

Till-Holger Borchert, et al., Van Eyck to Dürer: Early Netherlandish Painting and Central Europe, 1430-1530 (exhibition catalogue) (Tielt: Lannoo Publishing for Groeningemuseum, Bruges, 2010), cat. no. 101, illus. (color).

Xenia Riemann, “Historische Gläser aus zeitgenössischer Sicht: Der Designkontext zur Heimatkundlichen Sammlung in Heideck,” in Das Heidecker Heimatsmuseum 30 Jahre nach seiner Gründung (Heideck: Das Heidecker Heimatsmuseum, 2017), mentioned 32, illus. (color) 32, fig. 9.

Lyle Humphrey, "Saul Among the Prophets: W.R. Valentiner, Robert L. Humber, Carl W. Hamilton, and the Italian Collection at the NCMA," Lisandra Estevez, ed., Collecting Early Modern Art (1400-1800) in the U.S. South (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 34.Exhibition HistoryLondon, New Gallery, 1896-97.

Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein, 1922, no. 55.

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, "Stefan Lochner," 1936.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 12, illus. (color) 13.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Robert F. Phifer Collection," March 31-May 13, 1973, 46, illus. (b-w) 47 and (color) cover.

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, "Vor Stefan Lochner, Die Kölner Maler von 1300 bis 1430," March 29-July 7, 1974, cat. no. 51, illus. fig. 51.

Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, "Masterpieces from the North Carolina Museum of Art," March 11-April 13, 1975.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Education Gallery, "Saints and Heroes," November 14, 1987-July 24, 1988, discussed 9, illus. (b-w) 8, fig. 6.

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, "Stefan Lochner, Meister zu Köln," December 3, 1993-March 13, 1994, cat. no. 43.

Bruges, Belgium, Groeninge Museum, "Van Eyck to Dürer: Artistic Exchanges Between the Netherlands and Central, Eastern and Northern Europe, ca. 1420-1530," October 28, 2010-January 30, 2011, cat. no. 101, illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Miracle on Morgan Street: The Foundations of the NCMA, 1946–1960,” September 16, 2020–April 11, 2021.

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

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