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Painting of a bald, bearded old man reading at a stone table in a rocky arch, with a skull, a lion at lower right, and a distant landscape.

Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

An elderly bearded man, nearly nude except for a green cloth, sits reading a large open book at a stone table in a rocky arch. A skull rests beside the book, and a red cloak hangs behind him, while a lion lies at lower right and a distant town and mountains fill the landscape.

Artist
attributed to Bernardino da Brescia
Date
1500-1520
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
4000 × 2685 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1520.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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