Saint Jerome in Penitence (Lotto, Paris)

Saint Jerome in Penitence is an oil-on-panel painting by Italian Renaissance artist Lorenzo Lotto.

[1] It is traditionally ascribed to the painter's period in Treviso, possibly commissioned by bishop Bernardo de' Rossi for private devotion.

A 1510 inventory shows that de' Rossi owned a painting of Saint Jerome, but it is not known for certain that it was the work now in Paris.

Some theories hold it to have been a cover for a portrait.

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