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Painting by Matthias Stom

*Saint Jerome* (c. 1635) by Matthias Stom

Saint Jerome is an oil-on-canvas painting by Dutch artist Matthias Stom. It was completed c. 1635 and is now in the Musee des Beaux Arts de Nantes, which bought it in 1810. Painted in a tenebrist style, it depicts Saint Jerome at a table in a darkened space. Before him there are a Bible, a rosary, a crucifix, and a skull. Jerome gazes in the direction of light which falls from the upper left.

The dimensions of the painting are 117 cm x 98 cm (46 in. x 38.5 in).

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"Catalogue page" (in French).

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List of paintings
Paintings	Salome Receives the Head of John the Baptist (c. 1630–1632) Isaac Blessing Jacob (c. 1635) Saint Jerome (c. 1635) King David (c. 1633–1639) Supper at Emmaus (c. 1620–1640) The Judgement of Solomon (Houston) (c. 1640) The Judgement of Solomon (Manchester, New Hampshire) (c. 1640) The Incredulity of Saint Thomas (c. 1640–1649) Man Blowing on an Ember (uncertain) Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (uncertain)
Painting series	Adoration of the Magi (c. 1633–1640) Adoration of the Shepherds
Related	Utrecht Caravaggism

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