Saint Jerome
Vittorio Crivelli15th century
Chrysler Museum of Art
Norfolk, United States
Carlo Crivelli's finely detailed and sharply delineated Gothic style had considerable influence on painters working in the Marches in central Italy. Chief among them was his younger brother Vittore, who readily assumed Carlo's style. Vittore's small devotional images of Saint Peter (wearing the papal triple tiara and holding the keys to the kingdom of heaven) and Saint Jerome (the book he holds symbolizing his authorship of the Latin Bible) belonged to a larger, multi-panel altarpiece of the Virgin and Child by Vittore that was pulled apart in the early 20th century and is now divided among several collections. The fate of this dismembered polyptych is not unusual and should remind us that many early European paintings on view in museums today are actually fragments of originally larger and richer artistic programs.
- Title: Saint Jerome
- Creator: Vittore Crivelli
- Creator Lifespan: ca. 1444–1501
- Creator Nationality: Italian
- Date Created: 15th century
- Physical Dimensions: 24 x 12 in. (61 x 30.5 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
- Provenance: Monteprandone, Collegiata of San Niccolò, on the high altar at least, until moved to the sacristy in 1834; Rome, Pope Gregory XVI’s private collection, sent from Monteprandone on 26th September 1844; Victoria and Albert Museum collection (as part of larger Madonna and Child altarpiece), London, England, 1871; left museum by 1912; Arthur Hauth/Haupt, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1929; Charles Brinsley Marlay (d. 1912), London, England, ?-1912; Gustav Oberlaender (1867-1936), Go-Al-Do Manor, Reading, PA, and NY, ?-1936; Mrs. Harold M. Leinbach (Oberlaender's daughter), New York, NY, 1936-1939; Auctioned, Oberlaender estate sale, Parke-Bernet, NY (nos. 219-220) - at this point parts of the altarpiece broken up/sold separately, May 25-26, 1939; Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York, NY, dates unknown; Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. to Chrysler Museum of Art, 1971.
- Type: Altarpiece
- Medium: Oil
- Art Movement: Gothic
- Art Form: Painting
- Support: Panel
- Depicted Person: Saint Jerome
- Depicted Topic: Religion
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