Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, in brown ink, lower left: Baldes fe. ano 1684; inscribed, in brown ink, lower right: 30 des Brit (?)

Exhibition History

A Collector's Choice: William B. Jaffe Memorial Exhibition, Dartmouth College, Hanover New Hampshire, December 8, 1972-January 7, 1973.

Images of Old Age, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover New Hampshire, February 5-May 26, 1983.

Saints and Sinners, Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover New Hampshire, February 2-April 25, 1993.

Publication History

Treasures of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College (New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1985) p.84

Provenance

Acquired by Catherine Mary Brackenbury (ca. 1818-after 1883), Cádiz, Spain, mid-19th century; sold Sotheby's, Wilkinson & Hodge, 27 February 1924, lot 7 as an album of 450 drawings; where acquired by Robert Langton Douglas, London, UK; by descent to his widow, Jean Douglas Fowles (née Stewart) (1901–1985), London, UK and New York, NY; by whom sold Parke-Bernet, New York, 1–2 April 1952, lot 76, as part of an album of 450 drawings; where acquired by Julius H. Weitzner (1895–1986) (dealer), New York, NY; by whom sold to Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005) and William B. Jaffe (1904-1972), New York, NY, before 1956; by whom given to the present collection, 1961.

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