Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

Catalogue of Paintings belonging to the rev. J. Sanford; collected in Italy, from 1815 to 1837. Entrusted to G. Yates and Son, to be partially disposed of by private contract at 209 Regent Street, London, 1838, p. 19, no. 102.

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"Chicago Gets Handsome Gift," Pictures on Exhibit 9, 7 (1947), p. 14. Katharine Kuh, "The Worcester Gift," AIC Bulletin (1947), pp. 62-63 (ill.).

but unverified.] A.L. Nicholson, London, by 1930 [see letter of 20 February 1930 from Bernard Berenson to Nicholson in curatorial file]. M. Knoedler, New York, acquired December 1944 (stock no. A 2989) and sold to the Art Institute, May 10, 1945.

Rev. John Sanford, Florence and London, by 1837 [see Sanford catalogue, 1837, p. 19, no. 102.] Sold Christie's, London, March 9, 1839, no. 131, for £23 2s, to G. Yates. Possibly George Byng (1764-1847) or his nephew George Byng (1806-1886), second earl of Strafford of the third creation, Wrotham Park, Barnet (Middlesex) [according to information supplied by M. Knoedler

The Art Institute of Chicago, Bill Viola: A 25-Year Survey, October 16, 1999 – January 9, 2000, included in the gallery that held Viola’s The Greeting for the Chicago venue.

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R. Cock, Veronese, London, 1980, p. 110, pl. 72. H. Friedmann, A Bestiary for Saint Jerome: Animal Symbolism in European Religious Art, Washington, D.C., 1980, p. 347.

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T. Pignatti, Veronese, Venice, 1976, vol. 1, p. 175, no. A49, vol. 2, fig. 763.

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1972, pp. 39, 409, 571.

G. Piovene and R. Marini, L'opera completa del Veronese, Classici dell'arte 20, Milan, 1968, p. 104, no. 76 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 461.