_Cima da Conegliano_ (Venetian: 1460-1518). _See 300._
Another of the numerous St. Jerome pictures: see under 694 and 227.
The saint has his usual company of animals. His lion is frowning,
somewhat with the same expression as in 227--as if to deprecate the
penance which his master is about to inflict on himself. On the branch
of the tree above is a hawk, looking on with the expression of a
superior person--one quite too sagacious to countenance such madness.
Notice also the serpent which crawls from beneath the rock on which
the Cross is placed. The picture, says Mr. Gilbert, "is rich, even
brilliant, in colouring, and if there is a touch of oddity in the house
perched upon a crag, there is loveliness in the mountain range, and in
the amber and lemon tints that streak the evening sky" (_Landscape in
Art_, p. 340).