Saint Jerome in Penitence by Master of the Lille Adoration
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Saint Jerome in Penitence

Master of the Lille Adoration · 1525–30

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. British private collection, based on the label from an auction catalogue attached to the back of the panel (the label reads ALBERT DURER/11. Saint Jerome meditating. Very masterly). Julius Weitzner, London, by 1972 (according to email from Richard Feigen to Martha Wolff, October 19 and 20, 2016); consigned by Weitzner to Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York and Chicago, by 1972 (according to email exchange cited above and Feigen’s 1972 exhibition); sold to Suzette Morton Davidson (died 1996), Chicago and Santa Barbara, September 22, 1972 (according to Mrs. Davidson’s collection notes; copy supplied by her son, Victor Zurcher); by descent to Mr. and Mrs. Victor K. Zurcher, Hampshire, Ill.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Chicago, Richard L. Feigen & Co., Old Masters and the Modern Environment, September 20– October 21, 1972, no. 4.

Literature

Published references

  • Ellen Konowitz, “Dirk Vellert and the Master of the Lille Adoration: Some Antwerp Mannerist paintings reconsidered,” Oud Holland, 109 (1995): 185–87, 190, n. 26 and 29, fig. 12.
  • "New Acquisition: Saint Jerome in Penitence by the Master of the Lille Adoration", Art Institute of Chicago Member Magazine 40 (July/August 2017): 13, ill.

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