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, France, 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).

Saint Jerome (Stom)

See also

List of paintings by Matthias Stom

References

1635 paintings

Stom

Paintings in the Musée d'Arts de Nantes

Paintings by Matthias Stom

Books in art

Skulls in art

Paintings of crucifixes

Saint Jerome (Stom)