St. Jerome

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St. Jerome

Artist Andrés López (Mexican, 1727 - 1807)

Place of OriginMexico

Date18th century

Dimensions17 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (44.5 × 34.3 cm)

MediumOil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineGift of Edward B. Davison and Cathy O. Blight, M.D., and Fenton M. and Marilyn M. Davison

Object number

2021.7

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 23A, New Media

DescriptionThe Four Doctors, or Fathers, of the Latin Church are St. Ambrose, St. Jerome, St. Augustine, and St. Gregory the Great. The present series includes St. Jerome and St. Gregory the Great, but substitutes for St. Ambrose and St. Augustine two other later doctrinal writers, St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Bonaventure, granted the title Doctor of the Church since the 16th century. St. Jerome – Jerome (ca. 342 – 420) is in cardinal’s red vestments (though he was never made a cardinal as the office only came in to existence later) with the hat hanging on the wall. He sits in a classical Spanish chair and is writing with a slope topped writing desk before him on a plain stretcher table. The saint’s common attribute, a lion, appears in the lower right. A symbolic trumpet – the voice of God – is seen above.

Published ReferencesFlint Institute of Arts, The Fenton R. McCreery Collection of Mexican Colonial Paintings, 1971, nrs. 6-9 [with other three paintings in series].Exhibition HistoryFlint, MI, Flint Institute of Arts, The Fenton R. McCreery Collection of Mexican Colonial Paintings, 1971, nrs. 6-9 [with other three paintings in series].