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Painting of an elderly bearded saint writing in a book with a quill, a lion beneath him, and a rocky landscape behind.

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St Jerome, a painting by Jan Sanders van Hemessen dated 1545 and held by the Royal Collection, shows a bald, bearded, partly nude elderly man seated and writing in an open book with a quill. A lion rests at the lower left beneath the desk, and a rocky landscape with a distant town fills the background at right.

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Date

1545

Medium

Painting

Museum

Royal Collection

License

Public domain

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