Saint Jerome

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Currently on long-term loan in the Museu de Lleida: diocesà i comarcal
Artists / Makers / Authorities: 
Pedro García de Benabarre
Documented in Zaragoza, Benabarre, Barcelona, Lleida and Barbastro, 1445-1485
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Description:

As a doctor of the Church, Saint Jerome appears sitting at a lectern with an open book on it and next to a writing desk, removing the thorn from the tame lion’s paw. As is customary, he is dressed as a cardinal, although, as is well known, he was never actually made one.

Works of the set.

 

Saint Michael Archangel, Pedro García de Benabarre, 1455-1480. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston).

Painting

Circa 1473-1482

190.5 x 123.6 x 6 cm

Purchased 1907

Inventory number: 

024104-000

Tempera on wood
Subject: Religion
Century: 15th
Compartment of an altarpiece dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. The museum keeps five more panels from the same work. Another panel with Saint Michael is kept at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston) and the whereabouts of other pieces is unknown. From the parish church of Sant Joan del Mercat de Lleida.
Pere Garcia de Benavarri - Sant Jeroni - Cap a 1473-1482
Sant Jeroni