Saints Zeno and Jerome

Saint Zeno, in a bishop's mitre, stands beside Saint Jerome, who wears the red of a cardinal and holds a book. Zeno was a 4th-century bishop of Verona, and he is here because the cathedral of Pistoia is dedicated to him. Jerome, the scholar who translated the Bible into Latin, was among the saints the confraternity chose in 1455.

The panel took a long road to London. In the 1830s the German art historian Gustav Waagen saw it in the Ottley collection in London and took the two saints for James and Zeno. By 1906 it belonged to the German emperor Wilhelm II, and after the First World War it hung in the palace museum in Berlin. The Art Fund, with the dealer Joseph Duveen, gave it to the Gallery in 1929. Its lower right corner was missing, and the painter E. W. Tristram rebuilt it in 1929 and 1930, following an old workshop drawing of Jerome now in Frankfurt.