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Saint Jerome (© National Gallery, London)
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© National Gallery, London

Saint Jerome (© National Gallery, London)

Saint Jerome

Artist: Albrecht Durer (1471 - 1528)

Location: National Gallery

Date: circa 1496

Materials: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22 x 16 cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £300,000 (Total: £9,433,000; tax remission)

Vendor: Sir Nicholas Bacon

Review number: 4318 (1996)

Provenance:
Dukes of Lucca; J.Staniforth Beckett, c.1845; by descent to Sir Nicholas Bacon, Raveningham Hall, Norwich.

Description:
A small double-sided devotional painting which depicts Saint Jerome in a landscape on the front, and a scene with a heavenly body in a night sky on the reverse.

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