Penitent Saint Jerome in Landscape

Artist Master of the Female Half-Lengths (Netherlandish, active 1520s-1530s)

Formerly attributed to Joachim Patinir (Flemish, ca. 1475 - 1524)

Date1525/1530

MediumOil on wood panel

DimensionsUnframed: 13 7/8 x 19 3/16 inches (35.24 x 48.74 cm)
Framed: 21 3/8 x 26 5/8 x 2 3/8 inches (54.29 x 67.63 x 6.03 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number61-1

SignedNone

On View

On view

Gallery Location

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European Art

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DescriptionLower left corner, kneeling bearded man, skull before him, recumbent lion behind him, beyond which, on bush, cardinal's petasos and cloak; clearing, center left, with three woodsmen, range of mountains with tunnel, church, top left corner; foreground, to right of center, double-arched bridge with lion running toward it, center, procession of camels and an ass, right, mill and tavern; center, middleground with many figures; background to right of center, town on right bank of broad river on which sail many ships, to right and beyond town, rolling countryside and distant mountains.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

No known exhibition history at this time.

Gallery Label

The Master of the Female Half-Lengths is a name given to an as yet unidentified artist who worked in Antwerp and Bruges and specialized in paintings of half-length female figures. A number of landscapes have been attributed to him, including this panel. This type of panoramic landscape with jagged rocks and small figures engaged in varied activities was intended to evoke the harmony between man and the wonders of nature. Landscapes at this time were considered works of mere imitation, requiring little imaginative power, so their status was usually enhanced by endowing them with a religious subject, in this case the Penitent Saint Jerome.

Provenance

P. Mengarini, Rome, as by Joachim Patinir, by 1926 [1];

Professor Niccolò Castellino (1893-1953), Rome, as by Joachim Patenier, by 1932;

With Frederick Mont, New York, as by Joachim Patinier, by June 1960;

Purchased from Mont by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1961.

NOTES:

[1] G. J. Hoogewerff ("Joachim Patinir in Italië", Onze Kunst 43, no. 1 (January 1926): 20), notes this may possibly be Pietro Mengarini (1869-1924), an Italian Pointillist artist living in Rome.

Published References

Godefridus Johannes Hoogewerff, "Joachim Patinir in Italië," Onze Kunst 43, no.1 (January 1926): 20, (repro.), as by Patinir.

Godefridus Johannes Hoogewerff, "Joachim Patinir en Italie,” La Revue d'Art 45 (September 1928): 131, (repro.), as by Patinir.

Max J. Friedländer, Die Altniederländische Malerei, vol. 9, Joos van Cleve, Jan Provost, Joachim Patenier (Berlin: Cassirer, 1931), no. 244, p. 158, as by Patinir.

Ulrich Thieme und Felix Becker, eds., Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 26 (Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, 1932), 293, as by Patinir.

"Paintings on Loan," Gallery News (The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) 9, no. 3 (December 1942): 2, as by Patinir.

Godefridus Johannes Hoogewerff, Het Landschap van Bosch tot Rubens (Antwerp: De Nederlandsche Boekhandel, 1954), 23, (repro.), as by Patinir.

Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 3, no. 4 (Spring 1961): 14, (repro.), as by Patinir.

Robert A. Koch, Joachim Patinir (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968), no. M.H.-L.8, pp. 62-63, 87-88, (repro.).

Charles D. Cuttler and Burton L. Dunbar, "A Review of Robert A. Koch, Joachim Patinir," The Art Quarterly 32, no. 4 (Winter 1969): 431.

Max J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. 9, Joos van Cleve, Jan Provost, Joachim Patenier (Leiden: Sijthoff, 1973), no. 244, p. 123, (repro.), as by Patinir.

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5^th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 102, 257, (repro.), as by Patinir.

Walter S. Gibson, "Mirror of the Earth": The World Landscape in Sixteenth-Century Flemish Painting (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989), 16, (repro.).

Guy C. Baumann and Walter A. Liedtke, eds., Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America (Antwerp: Fonds Mercator, 1992), 349, (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 151, (repro.).

Burton L. Dunbar, The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: German and Netherlandish Paintings, 1450-1600 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2005), 20, 23, 29, 30, 177, 239-250, 296.

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