The Penitence of Saint Jerome, triptych by Joachim Patinir

A three-panel altarpiece with a wide river valley and rocky hills. On the left, a bearded man in robes pours water over a nude figure in a stream; in the center, a kneeling robed saint prays before a rocky outcrop, and on the right a bearded old man in a red cap reads a book beside a tree.

Artist

Joachim Patinir

Date

ca. 1515

Medium

Oil on wood

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3811 × 2818 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1936