FRANKFURT.- In the context of examining the Städel’s nineteenth-century holdings in view of the imminent reopening or new presentation of the museum’s collections respectively, an important painting by the French academic painter Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) has been discovered. The picture shows Saint Jerome reclining against a lion, his traditional attribute. After its comprehensive restoration, the painting will be on display for the first time as part of the Städel’s new permanent “Modern Art” (1800-1945) presentation. The work was last exhibited in London in 1882. Jean-Léon Gérôme ranks among the most successful artists of the second half of the nineteenth century. His pictures are to be found among the exhibits of the most prominent American, British and French museum’s permanent presentations. To date, the collections of the Hamburger Kunsthalle were the only ones in Germany w