''Saint Jerome in Penitence'' is an oil-on-panel painting by Italian Renaissance artist

Lorenzo Lotto Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556/57) was an Italian painter, draughtsman, and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school, though much of his career was spent in other north Italian cities. He painted mainly altarpieces, religiou ...

. Its signature ("Lotus") is fully legible, but the final number of the date is illegible, though it is usually dated to around 1506. It is now in the

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. It is traditionally ascribed to the painter's period in

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, possibly commissioned by bishop

Bernardo de' Rossi Bernardo de' Rossi (26 August 1468 – 28 June 1527) was an Italian bishop and patron of the arts. Biography Rossi was the son of a feudal family of the area of Parma, at a young age he received the archdeaconate of Padua and the Abbey of St ...

for private devotion. A 1510 inventory shows that de' Rossi owned a painting of Saint Jerome, but it is not known for certain that it was the work now in

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. Some theories hold it to have been a cover for a portrait. It was recorded in Cardinal Fesch's collection in 1814.

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1506 paintings Paintings by Lorenzo Lotto Paintings in the Louvre by Italian artists Lotto, Paris Books in art {{16C-painting-stub

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