The Adoration (Madonna of Saint Jerome) (after Correggio)
after Correggio (Correggio c.1489 – Correggio 1534)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
724 x 508 mm (28 1/2 x 20 in)
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732381
Summary
Oil painting on canvas (print or pastel?), The Adoration (Madonna of Saint Jerome) (after Correggio), after Correggio (Correggio c.1489 – Correggio 1534), 17th century. A seventeenth-century copy of Correggio's celebrated Madonna of Saint Jerome, 1523/8 in the Galleria Nazionale, Parma. Saint Jerome, bearded, partly clothed in blue drapery, stands full-length on the right with his right side to the viewer, holding a scroll in his right hand, looking towards the Holy Family, in the centre. The lion, his attribute, stands behind him partially behind a red curtain on the far right. An angel shows Jesus, who sits on his mother's lap, the pages of a book, held by Saint Jerome in his left hand. Mary Magdalen, in white and yellow, holds his foot while he holds her hair with his left hand. Saint John the Baptist, as a child but holding his baptism cup, stands behind her on the far left. They are under a red canopy and a mountainous landscape extends beyond. Another much larger copy, sometimes attributed to Carlo Cignani (1628 - 1719), is from the Archibald McLellan collection in the Glasgow Museums, purchased in 1856.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946.
Credit line
Stourhead, The Hoare Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Correggio (Correggio c.1489 – Correggio 1534) Correggio (Correggio c.1489 – Correggio 1534)
References
Humfrey 2012 Peter Humfrey, The Italian Paintings, Glasgow Museums, 2012, no. 38