Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
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The panel withholds Christ's face. The cross is T-shaped, evidently made of branches, the figure hung at an angle so acute the head is invisible, leaving the white loincloth, whose colouring Susan Foister reads as a vision of real presence, not a sculpted figure. Jerome kneels, beating his breast with a stone.
Pearwood, painted both sides. The back has no ground: paint straight onto bare wood, red streaks radiating from a yellow oval. Christof Metzger reads it as the Holy Spirit, a thunderbolt, striking the saint's heart. On the front he strikes himself. On the back he is struck.
Sources: Susan Foister, 'Saint Jerome' (NG6563), National Gallery Catalogues: The German Paintings before 1800, London 2024. · The National Gallery, London, 'Albrecht Duerer, Saint Jerome', NG6563.
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 8,746 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.