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Saint Jerome in his Study
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Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Likely the panel commissioned by the Notaries Guild of Siena for the decoration of their headquarters in that city and for which Matteo di Giovanni received four payments from the Guild dated 7 June and 30 June 1481 and c. 30 September 1482. [1] Likely Antonio Piccolomini Bellanti (1771-1837) Pian dei Mantellini Siena before 1835. [2] Panciatichi Florence. Cecconi Florence by 1904 [3] to; William Hathaway Forbes 1905 by descent; to Edward Waldo Forbes gift; to the Fogg Art Museum 1966.
1. G. Fattorini "Matteo di Giovanni's 'St. Jerome' for the Notaries' Guild of Siena " in "The Burlington Magazine" 154 (1312) July 2012: pp. 468-475. Fattorini argues that the Art Museums' panel of Saint Jerome can be conclusively indentified as the work mentioned in documents of 1482 that record 4 payments made by the Notaries’ Guild of Siena to Matteo di Giovanni for an image of their patron Saint Jerome to decorate the interior of their headquarters in the city. This conclusion is based on stylistic grounds that link the Saint Jerome to other works known to have been commissioned by the Guild for their headquarters.
2. Ibid. p. 470 a "S. Girolamo figura quasi di grandezza al naturale a pie' del quale è il nome dell'artista [Matteo di Giovanni]" which can be associated with the Fogg panel is recorded in the Bellanti collection in Ettore Romagnoli's "Biografia cronologica de' belleartisti senesi" of 1835. Interestingly the work is absent from the list of Bellanti works sold in 1838 to pay of the late Antonio Piccolomini's debts.
3. Cecconi Florence is listed as the owner in the 1904 exhibition catalogue for "Mostra dell'Antica Art Senese"
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Edward W. Forbes in memory of his father William Hathaway Forbes
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