Matthias Stom, 1630 - A Young Man Reading by Candlelight - fine art print

About this more than 390 years old painting

A Young Man Reading by Candlelight is a piece of art by Matthias Stom in 1630. The original had the size - Height: 58,5 cm (23 ″); Width: 73,5 cm (28,9 ″) Framed: Height: 77 cm (30,3 ″); Width: 92 cm (36,2 ″); Depth: 8 cm (3,1 ″). Nowadays, the piece of art forms part of the art collection of Nationalmuseum Stockholm, which is Sweden's museum of art and design, a Swedish government authority with a mandatet o preserve cultural heritage and promote art, interest in art and knowledge of art. The classic art public domain work of art is included with courtesy of Nationalmuseum Stockholm & Wikimedia Commons.: . Moreover, alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format with a side ratio of 1.2 : 1, which implies that the length is 20% longer than the width. Matthias Stom was a male painter, whose style was primarily Baroque. The artist was born in 1599 in Amesfoort and deceased at the age of 53 in 1652 in Sicily.

What art print materials can I pick?

In the product dropdown selection you can pick your prefered size and material. We allow yout to choose among the following variants:

• Printed acrylic glass: An acrylic glass print, which is often described as a UV print on plexiglass, will change the original artwork into wall décor. The artwork will be manufactured with the help of modern UV direct printing technology. It makes intense and impressive colors.
• Canvas: The canvas direct print is a printed canvas stretched on a wood stretcher. Your canvas print of this artpiece will provide you with the unique opportunity of turning your personal art print into a large artwork. A canvas print has the advantage of being relatively low in weight, which implies that it is easy to hang up the Canvas print without the help of additional wall-mounts. Canvas prints are suitable for all types of walls.
• Aluminium dibond: This is a metal print manufactured on aluminium dibond with an outstanding effect of depth. A direct Direct Print on Aluminum Dibond is your best start to art reproductions with aluminum. For your Print On Aluminum Dibond, we print your work of art onto the surface of the white-primed aluminum. The bright sections of the artpiece shimmer with a silk gloss, however without glow.
• Poster (canvas material): The poster print is a UV printed canvas paper with a slightly roughened surface structure. It is best designed for framing the fine art print in a custom frame. Please bear in mind, that depending on the absolute size of the poster print we add a white margin 2-6cm around the painting, which facilitates the framing with your custom frame.

Important legal note: We try our utmost to depict our art products as accurate as possible and to display them visually in our shop. Although, the tone of the print materials, as well as the printing might diverge to a certain extent from the representation on the monitor. Depending on the screen settings and the condition of the surface, color pigments might not be printed one hundret percent realistically. Because the fine art prints are processed and printed by hand, there might as well be minor differences in the motif's exact position and the size.

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Original artwork description by the museum (© - Nationalmuseum Stockholm - Nationalmuseum Stockholm)

English: 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 painting provided an aesthetic as well as a contemplation experience. Matthias Stom var en bland många holländska konstnärer som for till Rom i början på 1600-talet. Där tog de starka intryck av Caravaggios ljusdunkelmåleri. De skildrade gärna nattscener där realistiskt avbildade figurer modelleras fram med hjälp av artificiella ljuskällor. Stoms målning visar en ung man som läser i skenet från ett vaxljus. Hans koncentration ger en bild av dåtidens idéer om flit och dygd. Målningen var avsedd att ge såväl en skönhetsupplevelse som ett tillfälle till begrundan.