MASTER OF THE LILLE ADORATION, attrib. to

SAINT JEROME IN HIS STUDY

MASTER OF THE LILLE ADORATION, attributed to
active c. 1510 – 1530 Antwerp
Oil on panel
95 x 75 cm / 37.4 x 29.5 in

The iconography of Saint Jerome in Italian, Flemish and German art has a complex genesis, and its symbolic beginning can be considered a painting by Jan van Eyck on this subject, a version of which is now at the Institute of Arts in Detroit (ill.3) . It is in this work that Saint Jerome is shown as a learned man, that in an iconographic type, which will be developed in painting of the 15-16th century. The emergence of this iconography is associated with the name of the famous figure of the Catholic Church, diplomat, Cardinal Niccolò Albergati (1375 - 1443). A graduate of the University of Bologna who became the bishop of Bologna, Albergati was a man of high intellectual culture. The meeting between the cardinal .... HERE YOU CAN CLICK AND DOWNLOAD COMPLETE TEXT!




PROVENANCE
(probably) 1771 Amsterdam, Gerrit Braamkamp sale, lot 59 (as DURER Albert, Een Binnenvertrek, waarin Heilige Jeronimus zit te schryven; op den voorgrond ligt een Leeuw. Dit stuk is zeer fraay uitgevoerd; sold for 220). This evidence is taken from the description of picture from the later Hugo Helbing's sale. But in the catalogue of Braakamp picture attributed to Durer has absolutely another dimensions -15 x 12 inches. Sure, we can suggest mistake in the Braakamp's sale catalogue.
Köln, collection of sculptor and restorer Richard Moest (1841-1906) till 1907, when the collection was bough by city of Aachen
Aachen, Suermondt-Museums
Hugo Helbing, Munchen, Katalog von alten Gemälden, Skulpturen, Schnitzereien und Möbeln aus dem Besitz der Städtischen Museen Aachen, 6 June 1917, lot 16 (as Oberdeutscher Meister, 16. Jahrhundert. (Nach Albrecht Dürer.) 16 Hl. Hieronymus im Gehäus.). Abbildung Tafel III.
Nagel Auktionen, Stuttgart, Kunst, Antiquitäten & Schmuck, 17 October 2019, lot 586 (as DEUTSCHLAND 16./17. Jahrhundert Der Heilige Hieronymus).
Paris, private collection



RELATED LITERATURE
Collectionieren – Restaurieren – Gotisieren. Der Bildschnitzer Richard Moest 1841 – 1906. Katalog zur Ausstellung zum 100. Todesjahr (Hrsg. Preising, Dagmar), Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, 02.12.2006 – 22.04.2007, Köln 2007