{
"data": {
"id": 144270,
"accession_number": "1969.109",
"share_license_status": "CC0",
"tombstone": "Saint Paul the Hermit, c. 1662\u20131664. Mattia Preti (Italian, 1613\u20131699). Oil on canvas; framed: 121 x 94 x 8 cm (47 5/8 x 37 x 3 1/8 in.); unframed: 103 x 76.2 cm (40 9/16 x 30 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1969.109",
"current_location": "217 Italian Baroque",
"title": "Saint Paul the Hermit",
"creation_date": "c. 1662\u20131664",
"creation_date_earliest": 1657,
"creation_date_latest": 1669,
"artists_tags": [
"male"
],
"culture": [
"Italy"
],
"technique": "oil on canvas",
"support_materials": [],
"department": "European Painting and Sculpture",
"collection": "P - Italian 16th & 17th Century",
"type": "Painting",
"measurements": "Framed: 121 x 94 x 8 cm (47 5/8 x 37 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 103 x 76.2 cm (40 9/16 x 30 in.)",
"dimensions": {
"framed": {
"height": 1.21,
"height_inch": 47,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.625,
"width": 0.94,
"width_inch": 37,
"width_inch_fraction": 0.0,
"depth": 0.08,
"depth_inch": 3,
"depth_inch_fraction": 0.125
},
"unframed": {
"height": 1.03,
"height_inch": 40,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.5625,
"width": 0.762,
"width_inch": 30,
"width_inch_fraction": 0.0
}
},
"state_of_the_work": null,
"edition_of_the_work": null,
"copyright": null,
"inscriptions": [],
"exhibitions": {
"current": [
{
"id": 301313,
"title": "Year in Review: 1969",
"description": "Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).",
"opening_date": "1970-01-27T05:00:00"
},
{
"id": 309864,
"title": "Baroque Imagery",
"description": "Baroque Imagery. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 1984-January 6, 1985).",
"opening_date": "1984-11-06T05:00:00"
}
],
"legacy": [
{
"description": "Year in Review for 1969, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, (January 28 - February 22, 1970).",
"opening_date": "1970-02-22T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Baroque Imagery, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, (November 6, 1984 - January 6, 1985) .",
"opening_date": "1984-11-06T00:00:00"
}
]
},
"provenance": [
{
"description": "Anonymous private collection, England (sold, Sotheby\u2019s, London, March 26, 1969, lot 59, to Perretti); Perretti",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": null,
"date": "1969",
"sortorder": null
},
{
"description": "Julius Weitzner (London, England), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": null,
"date": "1969",
"sortorder": null
}
],
"find_spot": null,
"related_works": [],
"former_accession_numbers": [],
"did_you_know": "Clothed only in a rough woven cloth, Paul's suffering drew him spiritually closer to Christ.",
"early_education_description": null,
"artlens_description": null,
"description": "After training in Rome in the 1630s and 1640s, Preti went to Naples where he continued working in a mode inspired by the work of Caravaggio. In this painting, dramatic lighting and intense naturalism depict the intersection of the heavenly and earthly realms. According to Catholic tradition, Saint Paul the Hermit fled into the desert to escape persecution from the Romans in the third century, and is revered as the first of many hermit saints. A raven brought Saint Paul a half a loaf of bread daily, which enabled him to survive to the age of 113 years. Preti depicted the saint looking heavenward in appreciation and awe of his heavenly provider.",
"external_resources": {
"wikidata": [
"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60470253"
],
"internet_archive": [
"https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1969.109-saint-paul-the-hermi"
]
},
"citations": [
{
"citation": "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": "Reproduced: p. 393; Mentioned: p. 392",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1969.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 57, no. 1 (1970): 2\u201350.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 16",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Schloder, John E., and Cleveland Museum of Art. Baroque Imagery. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1984.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 21",
"url": ""
}
],
"url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.109",
"images": {
"annotation": null,
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.109/1969.109_web.jpg",
"width": "658",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "396961",
"filename": "1969.109_web.jpg"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.109/1969.109_print.jpg",
"width": "2507",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "5945432",
"filename": "1969.109_print.jpg"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.109/1969.109_full.tif",
"width": "4056",
"height": "5500",
"filesize": "66955364",
"filename": "1969.109_full.tif"
}
},
"alternate_images": [
{
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.109/1969.109_alt0_web.jpg",
"width": "696",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "88321"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.109/1969.109_alt0_print.jpg",
"width": "2650",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "1493120"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.109/1969.109_alt0_full.tif",
"width": "4922",
"height": "6315",
"filesize": "93275228"
},
"date_created": "2012-02-14T19:16:38",
"annotation": ""
},
{
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.109/1969.109_alt1_web.jpg",
"width": "702",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "112778"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.109/1969.109_alt1_print.jpg",
"width": "2671",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "1486935"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.109/1969.109_alt1_full.tif",
"width": "4878",
"height": "6208",
"filesize": "90876628"
},
"date_created": "2012-02-14T19:26:02",
"annotation": ""
},
{
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.109/1969.109_alt2_web.jpg",
"width": "664",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "534887"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.109/1969.109_alt2_print.jpg",
"width": "2528",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "7067183"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.109/1969.109_alt2_full.tif",
"width": "3717",
"height": "5000",
"filesize": "55770588"
},
"date_created": "2005-02-07T19:38:06",
"annotation": ""
}
],
"creditline": "Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund",
"image_credit": null,
"sketchfab_id": null,
"sketchfab_url": null,
"gallery_donor_text": "Donna and James Reid Gallery",
"athena_id": 144270,
"creators": [
{
"id": 2276,
"description": "Mattia Preti (Italian, 1613\u20131699)",
"extent": null,
"qualifier": null,
"role": "artist",
"biography": null,
"name_in_original_language": null,
"birth_year": "1613",
"death_year": "1699",
"use_in_caption": true,
"include_extent": false,
"weight": 1
}
],
"legal_status": "accessioned",
"accession_date": "1969-07-20T00:00:00",
"sortable_date": 1657,
"date_added_to_oa": null,
"date_text": "c. 1662\u20131664",
"collapse_artists": false,
"on_loan": false,
"recently_acquired": false,
"record_type": "object",
"conservation_statement": null,
"has_conservation_images": false,
"cover_accession_number": null,
"is_nazi_era_provenance": true,
"impression": null,
"alternate_titles": [],
"is_highlight": false,
"updated_at": "2026-09-09 19:14:04.587000"
}
}