Saint Jerome and Saint Catherine of Alexandria Standing in a Landscape

About the Artwork

Girolamo da Treviso the Younger created this drawing as a preparatory design for a painting while working in Bologna at the Church of Santissimo Salvatore. The type of composition is known as a sacre conversazione (sacred conversation). Invented in Venice, this genre featured saints within expansive landscapes sharing a contemplative presence. Saint Jerome’s attribute, a lion, is loosely sketched with brush and ink, while the figures are carefully composed with a mix of ink, ink wash, and white highlights on colored paper, giving them a monumental, sculptural appearance.

Inscriptions

Collector’s mark, lower left: Lugt 2364 (Sir Joshua Reynolds); Collector’s mark, lower left: Ian Duncan (not in Lugt); bears inscription lower left, in the hand of Lord John Somers: l 182; bears an old attribution on the Richardson mount: Pelligrino da Bologna; on verso of mount in ink (in the hand of Jonathan Richardson, Sr.): Pellegrini Tibaldy eleve de Daniel de Volterre [crossed out in pencil]/ ne a Boulongne [sic] 1522 mort en 1592; below, on verso, in pencil in an unknown hand: coll. Lord Somers raisonnablement provenant / de Padre Reste / Reynolds / le dessin peut-être date autour 1550 / dans le style des dessins pour la decoration du Palais Sacchetti

Provenance

Padre Sebastiano Resta (1635-1714), Rome (L.2992a) (Lansdowne manuscript, (inscribed) no. 182: 'delle più belle cose di Giovanni de' Vecchi da Borgo') Giovanni Matteo Marchetti, bishop of Arezzo (1647-1704) Lord John Somers (1650-1716), Worcester (L.2981) 1717: his sale, London, 1717 Jonathan Richardson Sr. (1665-1745), London (L.2183), on his mount, with his inscription lower center: Pellegrino da Bologna (i.e., Pellegrino Tibaldi) Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), London (L.2364) 1985: sale, London, Christie's, 10 April 1985, lot 25 (as attributed to Pellegrino Tibaldi) Ian Duncan (bears his mark, not in Lugt) 2010: with Thomas Williams Fine Art Ltd., London, where acquired by Diane A. Nixon 2010-2026: Diane A. Nixon, New York 2026: Sotheby’s, New York, February 4, 2026, lot 4 March 2, 2026–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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

Quick Overview

Artist: Girolamo da Treviso the Younger (Italian, 1497–1544)
Date: c. 1530
Medium: pen and ink, gray wash, and white heightening over black chalk on prepared buff colored paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 24.3 x 22 cm (9 9/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawing
Department: Drawings
Credit line: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Accession no.: 2026.11

Open-access museum record · AT-00011185