'Saint Jerome'

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Painting details

Title: 'Saint Jerome'
Date: c.1869
Media: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 183 x 140 cm
Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London

Description

Full-length kneeling male figure, turned to the right. The head is tilted upwards. The arms are raised above the head and the palms of the hands are facing the sky. The figure is draped in robes around the waist. To the right of the canvas there is a tree trunk and foliage. To the left of the canvas there is a shrub. The background shows a hill with a lion on it. The lion is lying on its side with its head raised up and its front legs supporting it.

Provenance

Diploma work, 1896, Royal Academy of Arts

Bibliography

• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.160, catalogue number 185
• Rhys, Ernest, (prefatory essay by Stephens, F. G.) 'Sir Frederic Leighton, Bart., P. R. A.: An Illustrated Chronicle', George Bell and Sons, London, 1895, p.16, illustrated opposite p.16

Exhibition history

• 1869, Royal Academy of Arts, London, catalogue number 377
• 1897, Royal Academy of Arts, catalogue number 188