17th Century follower of Joos van Cleve, Saint Jerome in his study

17th Century follower of Joos van Cleve, Saint Jerome in his study

oil on canvas. 62 by 58.2 cm. Est. 6,000—8,000 EUR

NOTE: A 17th Century copy after Joos van Cleve's depiction of Saint Jerome, of which an exceptionally large number of variants and replicas originated in the artist's studio and circle.¹ The composition was not strictly of Van Cleve's own invention, but was based on Albrecht Dürer's Saint Jerome, painted in 1521 for Ruy Fernández de Almeida, Ambassador of King John III of Portugal, now in the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon.

1. See M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, vol IX (part I), Leiden 1972, pp. 31, 58, under nos. 39 and 40, reproduced plate 57.

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