San Jerome
Vaticano, Prati
- Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
- Location: San Jerome
- Date: 1482
The painting was never finished by the artist, and it has been identified as one of the paintings done in Florence before the artist left for Milan (1482). The work belonged to the famous painter Angelica Kaufmann and was found by Cardinal Joseph Fesch in the 1800s and purchased in 1845 by Pope Pius IX for the Vatican Museums.
THINGS TO KNOW: Curiosity: Tradition holds that the section containing the face of Jerome, obviously remounted, served as part of a cobbler's stool, while the rest of the work served as a bench top in a junk dealer's shop.
