A Young Man Reading by Candlelight
Matthias Stom was one of the many Dutch artists who travelled to Rome in the early 17th century. There they were strongly influenced by Caravaggio’s use of light and shadow. They often painted night scenes with figures rendered realistically in artificial light. Stom depicts a young man reading by candlelight. His concentration offers an image of contemporary concepts of diligence and virtue. The …
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- Visual arts
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Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
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- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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- Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Creation date
- 1628/1632
- 1628/1632
Provenance
- Purchase 1989
Identifier
- NM 6838
- 23887
Extent
- Mått 58,5 x 73,5 cm
Format
- Oil on canvas
- Oil painting
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- Sweden
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Timestamp created
- 2017-01-11T14:09:34.448Z
Timestamp updated
- 2017-01-11T14:27:07.818Z