Bernardino Pinturicchio - Saint Jerome in the Wilderness - Walters 371089

''Saint Jerome in the Desert'' is a 149.8 by 106 centimetres oil on panel painting by Pinturicchio, executed c. 1475-1480 and showing

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. It is one of the earliest dated paintings attributed to the artist and was produced just after his contributions to the '' Miracles of St Bernardino'' series (1473). It is recorded as being in the Bartoccini family collection in

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before entering the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, where it remained until it was sold in 1915.

Henry Walters Henry Walters (September 26, 1848 – November 30, 1931) was noted as an art collector and philanthropist, a founder of the Walters Art Gallery (now the Walters Art Museum) in Baltimore, Maryland, which he donated to the city in his 1931 will f ...

acquired it from the art dealer Luigi Grasse in 1916 on the advice of Bernard Berenson. In 1931 it formed part of the original core of the

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, where it still hangs. It was restored in 1966.

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