Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

between 1645 and 1685

Jusepe de Ribera Spanish, 1590-1652

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Title Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

Artwork Date between 1645 and 1685

Artist Jusepe de Ribera

Life Dates 1590-1652

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Spanish

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 77 1/4 × 60 inches (196.2 × 152.4 cm) Framed: 91 1/8 × 73 × 4 7/8 inches (231.5 × 185.4 × 12.4 cm) Framed Painting Wieght: 115 lbs

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Welker

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 49.4

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Provenance

Henry Mosler (Paris, France)

by descent to his daughter

1949, (French and Company, New York, New York, USA) 1949-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Pillement, G.. Ribera, Maîtres de L'Art Ancien. Paris, 1929, p. 35, pl. 11.

Pictures on Exhibit 11, no. 8 (1949) p. 57.

"Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, a Recent Gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts." Art Digest 23, no. 14 (1949): p. 19 (ill.).

Richardson, E.P. "A St. Jerome by Ribera." Bulletin of the DIA 29, no. 3 (1949-50): pp. 55-56, cover ill.

Felton, C.M. "Jusepe de Ribera, A Catalogue Raisonné." Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh, 1971, pp. 417, no. x-14.

Pérez Sánchez, A.E. and N. Spinosa. L'opera pittorica completa di Ribera. Milan, 1978, p. 133, no. 315. [as workshop copy or as by Hendrick van Somer.]

Jusepe de Ribera 1591-1652. Exh. cat., Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte. Naples, 1992, p. 276. [as Ribera.]

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682) Paintings from American Collections. Exh. cat., Kimbell Art Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Fort Worth and Los Angeles, 2002, pp. 116-117, cat. 3 (ill.).

Felton, C.M. "Out of the shadows. Jusepe Ribera." Apollo (September 1992): p. 146.

Spinosa, N. Ribera, L'opera completa. Naples, 2003, p. 352, B24.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

workshop of Jusepe de Ribera, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, between 1645 and 1685, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Welker, 49.4.