St Jerome at Prayer (Georges de la Tour)

Grenoble version

Stockholm version

St Jerome at Prayer is a 1630-1635 painting by Georges de la Tour. He produced it for the abbey of Saint Antoine a Viennois, but it was confiscated by the state on the French Revolution and is now in the Musée de Grenoble. An autograph copy with some variations was produced sometime before 1642 and is now in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.

Bibliography in French

Pierre Rosenberg, Marina Mojana, Georges de La Tour, catalogue complet des peintures, Paris, Bordas 1992
Dimitri Salmon: "Saint Jérôme pénitant dit aussi Saint Jérôme au chapeau cardinalice", i Dimitri Salmon et al.: Saint Jérôme & Georges de La Tour, Vic-sur-Seille 2013

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