Saint Jerome in Penitence

Provenance

British private collection, based on the label from an auction catalogue attached to the back of the panel (the label reads ALBERT DURER/11. Saint Jerome meditating. Very masterly). Julius Weitzner, London, by 1972 (according to email from Richard Feigen to Martha Wolff, October 19 and 20, 2016); consigned by Weitzner to Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York and Chicago, by 1972 (according to email exchange cited above and Feigen’s 1972 exhibition); sold to Suzette Morton Davidson (died 1996), Chicago and Santa Barbara, September 22, 1972 (according to Mrs. Davidson’s collection notes; copy supplied by her son, Victor Zurcher); by descent to Mr. and Mrs. Victor K. Zurcher, Hampshire, Ill.

Exhibition history

Chicago, Richard L. Feigen & Co., Old Masters and the Modern Environment, September 20– October 21, 1972, no. 4.

Publications

Ellen Konowitz, “Dirk Vellert and the Master of the Lille Adoration: Some Antwerp Mannerist paintings reconsidered,” Oud Holland, 109 (1995): 185–87, 190, n. 26 and 29, fig. 12. "New Acquisition: Saint Jerome in Penitence by the Master of the Lille Adoration", Art Institute of Chicago Member Magazine 40 (July/August 2017): 13, ill.

Quick Overview

Artist: Master of the Lille Adoration (Netherlandish, active about 1520–40)
Date: 1525–30
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 34.2 × 25.3 cm (13 1/2 × 10 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: painting
Style: 16th Century
Place: Netherlands
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Gift of Suzette and Eugene Davidson
Accession no.: 2016.435

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.