The work was one of about ten portrait commissions from Cranach by Albert, including at least three other surviving works showing Albert as Saint Jerome (a 1525 one now in the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt,[3] a 1527 one in John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota[4] and a c.1527 one in a private collection[5]). All four of them show Jerome's lion, whilst in two of them Jerome is in the wasteland and two in his study, both common motifs during the Renaissance.