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Saint Jerome
Lost Art-ID
592243
Artist / Creator
Enzola, Gianfrancesco di Luca
Birth
Parma?
Place of activity
Parma; Ferrara; Pesaro
First mentioned
1456
Last mentioned
1513
Title
Saint Jerome
Dating
1456-1478
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Metal (Bronze) / cast
Width
8.20 cm
Diameter
5.30 cm
Description
Bange-WV, Nr.: 595 (Α. N. 893. Inv. 1201.) Titel: Der hl. Hieronymus. The saint, dressed in a loincloth, kneels in front of a crucifix on the far right, holding a stone in his right hand. On the left, a little back, the saint in front of the hut is about to pull the thorn out of the lion's paw. Further back, a procession of horsemen moving towards a town. On the city wall the inscription: ROMA - SPQR. Edge decorated by incised teeth. Other examples, e.g. the one in the Louvre (shown at Molinier), show the inscription at the bottom edge: IHOANNIS . FRANCISI . PARVENSIS . OPVS . half relief. Bronze, gilded. H. 5,3, Br. 8,1 cm. At the margins the eyelet is broken out. Later pierced below;
Planiscig, 1936, Nr. 48: Titel: Hl. Hieronymus, bronze plaque. 8'2 x 5'3 cm
Provenance
acquired 1880 in Florence with the Bardini Collection; Collection Erich Lederer, Vienna (1936); to Johann Baptist Gudenus, Vienna for safekeeping (until 1945 - looted during the last days of the war); [...]; whereabouts unknown
Literature / Source
Molinier, Les plaq. Nr. 93. (Abb.); E. L. Bange, Die italienischen Bronzen der Renaissance und des Barock, 2. Teil: Reliefs und Plaketten, Berlin 1922, Nr. 595, Abb. Tafel 55; Leo Planiscig, Ernst Kris, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Juni-Juli 1936, Nr. 48 (Sammlung L., Wien); Sophie Lillie, Klimt's Women Collectors: The Pulitzer Sisters Szerena Lederer, Jenny Steiner and Aranka Munk, Diss. Wien, 2014, S. 197
Published since
Contact
Please contact the German Lost Art Foundation.
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