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Saint Jerome as Scholar
Gallery 958 · El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1610 · Met web page
El Greco, Saint Jerome as Scholar, ca. 1610. Oil on canvas. A cardinal in red vestments pauses at his desk with an open book, embodying the scholar's contemplative life.
Entrance → Gallery 958
To Saint Jerome as Scholar
From the Great Hall, walk through galleries 300, 304, and 305 in the Medieval Art section. Continue through gallery 520 and into the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts galleries (521, 961). Then proceed to gallery 959 and finally gallery 958 in the Robert Lehman Collection, where this painting is on view.