Saint Jerome Hears the Trumpet of the Last Judgment
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| Saint Jerome Hears the Trumpet of the Last Judgment | |
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| fr: Saint Jérôme entendant la trompette du Jugement dernier | |
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| Artist | Jacques-Louis David |
| Year | 1779 |
| Subject | Jerome |
| Location | Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on loan from the Musée de la civilisation[1] |
| Owner | Notre‑Dame‑de‑Québec Parish Corporation[1] |
Saint Jerome Hears the Trumpet of the Last Judgment is a 1779 painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1781 at the Louvre in Paris[2]
Jerome, one of the four Doctors of the Church, is depicted as a half-clad anchorite in his cell, with common iconographical attributes, a cross, a skull and bible. He is holding a quill in his right hand, indicating that he is writing the Vulgate. He is wearing the red garb of a cardinal, indicative of his role as secretary to Pope Damasus I. The skull alludes to this intellectual and penitential life.[3][4]
Provenance
The painting came to Quebec City between 1901 and 1908,[5] owned by Henriette and Geneviève Cramail.[6] After David's death in 1825, the painting entered the collection of Cardinal Joseph Fesch, and then in the collection of Cramail sisters' grandfather, the history and genre painter Gustave Mailand (1810–1880).[5]
It was donated by the sisters to the parish of Notre-Dame de Québec in 1938,[7] to replace works of art that were lost in a fire at the cathedral in 1922.[6][8] From 1995 to 2013, the painting was on display at the National Gallery of Canada.[7] It was subsequently in storage at the Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City for conservation.[7] It currently hangs in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA).[6]
