Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009166Saint Jerome
About the Artwork
Saint Jerome (about ad 347–420) translated biblical texts into Latin. Although he sometimes appears as a scholar in his study, Ribera represents him here as a penitent who withdrew to the desert, beating his chest with a stone to emulate Christ’s suffering and contemplating a skull symbolizing human vanity. Working in Naples, Ribera enthusiastically adapted Caravaggio’s characteristic use of light and dark and naturalistic models.
Inscriptions
Signed lower right: "Jusepe de Ribera espa[ñol]. F."
Provenance
1961–present: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. 1960–1961: (F. Kleinberger & Co., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art). until 1960: (Alessandro Morandotti, Zurich, sold to F. Kleinberger in 1960). until c. 1960?: Private collection, Italy, probably consigned to Alessandro Morandotti.
Exhibition history
Year in Review (1961). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961). El Greco to Goya, A Loan Exhibition of Spanish Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, IN (organizer) (February 10-March 24, 1963); Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (February 10-March 24, 1963). 700 Years of Spanish Art. Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL (organizer) (October 28-November 30, 1965). Baroque Imagery. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 1984-January 6, 1985).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jusepe de Ribera (Spanish, 1591–1652)
- Date
- c. 1638–40
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 150 x 121.5 x 9 cm (59 1/16 x 47 13/16 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 129 x 100.3 cm (50 13/16 x 39 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Accession no.
- 1961.219
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