# St Jerome in the Desert [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PATENIER, Joachim]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on wood, 78 x 137 cm ## Commentary This meditative master is unparalleled in his power of absorbing the parable of some Biblical episode or the meditation of St Anthony into a natural scene in which he makes us completely forget the picture's dimensions through the amplitude of what it suggests. We have before us space painted, time and space rendered sensible to our eyes. In his St Jerome, those bluish vistas fade beautifully into the distance under wide white skies. The painter has an exquisite way of sketching in tiny people, farms and groups of houses, or of leaving some animal - a goat or a bird - straying among the slaty blue of his rocks. ## Related artworks - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Crossing the River Styx]() - [Landscape with St Jerome]() - [Landscape with St John the Baptist Preaching]() - [Landscape with the Flight into Egypt]() - [Landscape with the Flight into Egypt]() - [Landscape with the Flight into Egypt]() - [Landscape with the Rest on the Flight \(detail\)]() - [Landscape with the Rest on the Flight]() - [Rest on the Flight to Egypt]() - [Rocky Landscape with Saint Jerome]() - [St Christopher Bearing the Christ Child]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()