# Landscape with Saint Jerome [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [POUSSIN, Nicolas]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 155 x 234 cm ## Commentary Landscape with St Paul the Hermit c. 1637 Oil on canvas, 155 x 234 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This painting belongs to a series painted for the Buen Retiro Palace of King Philip IV. The hermit saint praying in the centre was traditionally identified as St Jerome. Recently, however, it has been shown that the saint is not St Jerome but St Paul the Hermit, whose presence is documented in the palace inventory of 1701. ## Related artworks - [A Bacchic Scene]() - [A Dance to the Music of Time]() - [A Roman Road]() - [A Sacrifice]() - [Acis and Galatea]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Annunciation]() - [Apollo and Daphne]() - [Apollo and Daphne]() - [Apollo and the Muses \(Parnassus\)]() - [Armida Carrying off Rinaldo]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()