# St Jerome Penitent [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GOSSART, Jan]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on panel, 87 x 25 cm \(each panel\) ## Commentary St Jerome Penitent c. 1510 Oil on panel, 87 x 25 cm \(each panel\) National Gallery of Art, Washington This composition in grisaille is divided over two separate panels that had been joined at an unknown date. It formed the exterior wings of a triptych that had at its centre the Agony in the Garden \(now in Berlin\). While earlier representations of St Jerome most often depicted him as a <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/e/eyck\_van/jan/02page/31jerom.html'\)" href="/html/e/eyck\_van/jan/02page/31jerom.html">contemplative scholar in his study,</a> in the latter half of the fifteenth century a new type emerged, that of the penitent Jerome in the wilderness. In the southern Netherlands, the new iconography appeared in Bruges, initially with Hans Memling's image of <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/memling/3mature5/28jerome.html'\)" href="/html/m/memling/3mature5/28jerome.html">St Jerome</a> before a rocky landscape of about 1485-90 and flourished about 1510 and after in the workshops of Gerard David and Adriaen Isenbrant. Gossart's painting follows composition developed in these workshops: Jerome is kneeling at the right with his lion, facing the cross with the crucified Christ attached to a tree at the left, his cardinal's hat is on the ground; the landscape is framed by rocky cliffs. ## Related artworks - [A Grotesque with Two Sirens]() - [A Man Holding a Glove]() - [A Reliquary]() - [A Women's Bath]() - [Adam Accuses Eve before God]() - [Adam and Eve \(detail\)]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Agony in the Garden \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()