Saint Jerome (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.

[1] Painted in a tenebrist style, it depicts Saint Jerome at a table in a darkened space.

Jerome gazes in the direction of light which falls from the upper left.

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