id: 136680 accession number: 1961.219 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.219 updated: 2023-08-25 11:18:40.693000 Saint Jerome, c. 1638–40. Jusepe de Ribera (Spanish, 1591–1652). Oil on canvas; framed: 150 x 121.5 x 9 cm (59 1/16 x 47 13/16 x 3 9/16 in.); unframed: 129 x 100.3 cm (50 13/16 x 39 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1961.219 title: Saint Jerome title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1638–40 creation date earliest: 1638 creation date latest: 1640 current location: 212 Baroque Painting and Sculpture creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: Spain, 17th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Spanish before 1800 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jusepe de Ribera (Spanish, 1591–1652) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 150 x 121.5 x 9 cm (59 1/16 x 47 13/16 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 129 x 100.3 cm (50 13/16 x 39 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right: "Jusepe de Ribera espa[ñol]. F." translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1961) opening date: 1961-11-01T05:00:00 Year in Review (1961). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961). title: El Greco to Goya, A Loan Exhibition of Spanish Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries opening date: 1963-02-10T05:00:00 El Greco to Goya, A Loan Exhibition of Spanish Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (organizer) (February 10-March 24, 1963); Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (February 10-March 24, 1963). title: 700 Years of Spanish Art opening date: 1965-10-28T04:00:00 700 Years of Spanish Art. Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL (organizer) (October 28-November 30, 1965). title: Baroque Imagery opening date: 1984-11-06T05:00:00 Baroque Imagery. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 1984-January 6, 1985). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, November 1961: "Year in Review," cat., bull., (November 1961), p. 250 no. 68, repr. p. 218.
John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana, February 10- march 24, 1963: "El Greco to Goya: A Loan Exhibition of Spanish Painting of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," cat. no. 68, pl. 68 (catalogue by David Carter); Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI April15-May 26, 1963.
Jacksonville, Florida, Cummer Gallery of Art, 1965: " 700 Years of Spanish Art," cat. no. 31, illus. (October-November 1965).
CMA October 29, 1971- January 2 1972: "Carravaggion and His Followers," cat. no. 57 (revised 1975), repr. p. 155.
Fort Worth, Texas, The Kimbell Art Museum, 1982-83: "The Tangible World of the Spirit: The Paintings of Jusepe de Ribers,"
CMA November 6, 1984- January 6, 1985: "Baroque Imagery," cat. # 6, pp. 23-24, repr. p. 24. --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1961- footnotes: citations: (F. Kleinberger & Co., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1960-1961 footnotes: citations: (Alessandro Morandotti, Zurich, sold to F. Kleinberger in 1960)1 date: Until 1960 footnotes: *
1In Richard Spear’s Caravaggio and his Followers, as well as in the museum’s files, the owner of the painting prior to F. Kleinberger was cited as a private collector in Italy.  The Kleinberger stock card for this painting reveals that the gallery purchased the painting from “Morandotti,” presumably Alessandro Morandotti, a dealer based in Zurich.  A letter from Harry G. Sperling, the president of F. Kleinberger, to former CMA curator Henry S. Francis suggests that Morandotti sold the painting to Kleinberger on behalf of this unnamed private collector: “The Ribera was purchased by me officially in Zurich, Switzerland.  I had seen it for the first time in Italy and agreed to buy it if it was offered to me in Zurich…The painting came directly from private hands, where supposedly it was in the family for generations. I was not given the name of the family.”  When Morandotti died in 1979, his archives were dismantled.  
citations: Private collection, Italy, probably consigned to Alessandro Morandotti1 date: Until c. 1960? footnotes: *
1According to Harry G. Sperling, the president of F. Kleinberger, & Co., the painting had been in an unknown private collection in Italy for generations.
citations: --- fun fact: Ribera signed the painting on the spine of the book in which Jerome will write. digital description: wall description: Saint Jerome (about ad 347–420) translated biblical texts into Latin. Although he sometimes appears as a scholar in his study, Ribera represents him here as a penitent who withdrew to the desert, beating his chest with a stone to emulate Christ’s suffering and contemplating a skull symbolizing human vanity. Working in Naples, Ribera enthusiastically adapted Caravaggio’s characteristic use of light and dark and naturalistic models. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Stock cards, 1897-1973, and clipping file, F. Kleinberger, & Co., European Paintings, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. page number: url: Spear, Richard E. Caravaggio and His Followers. New York: Harper & Row, 1975. page number: url: Harry G. Sperling, letter to Henry S. Francis, Oct. 6, 1961, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 198 page number: url: page number: url: Stock cards, 1897-1973, and clipping file, F. Kleinberger, & Co., European Paintings, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. page number: url: Harry G. Sperling, letter to Henry S. Francis, Oct. 6, 1961, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Spear, Richard E. Caravaggio and His Followers. New York: Harper & Row, 1975. page number: url: Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 131 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n155 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 131 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n155 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 151 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n171 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 504-506; Reproduced: p. 505 url: Ximo Company and María Antonia Argelich, José de Ribera, San Jerónimo estudiando. Lleida: Centre d'Art d'Època Moderna, Universitat de Lleida, 2013. page number: Reproduced: p. 25, fig. 40 url: Marshall, Christopher R. Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting: The World in the Workbench. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 56, fig. 41 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.219/1961.219_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.219/1961.219_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.219/1961.219_full.tif