The paintings of John Singer Sargent exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY) in summer 2000 and later sites included “The Hermit,” painted by Sargent in Italy in 1908 and with the added title “Il Solitario.” An image of the painting can be viewed at the John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery http://www.jssgallery.org/Thumbnails/Sargent_Paintings1908.htm.
Hermits in Art: Ansoald
From the Bibliotheque nacionale de France: a medieval woodcut depicts Ansoald, the seventh-century bishop of Poitiers, visiting a hermit. The woodcut dates from the 14th-century and clearly depicts the hermit as an anchorite. URL: http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/texte/manuscrit/aman5/i1_0017.htm.
Hermits in Art: St. Anthony
An early sixteenth-century altarpiece depicting St. Anthony the hermit and scenes from his life is housed at the Catholic Church in Szepesszombat, Hungary. URL: http://hungart.euroweb.hu/english/zmisc/oltar/16_sz/2szepes/.
Hermits in Art: Juan Garinus
The strange legend of the hermit Juan Garinus of the monastery of Montserrat in Spain is illustrated by an unusual sculpture near Kuks in eastern Bohemia. URL: http://www.novyles.cz/en/sochy/s_08.htm.
Hermits in Art: St. Gilles
The legend of the French hermit Saint Gilles is beautifully illustrated by the so-called Master of St. Gilles (circa 1500) in “St. Gilles and the Hind,” an altar-panel residing in the National Gallery, London. URL: http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/m/master/stgilles/gilles.html.