A Man with a Glass of Wine, Pipe and Fiddle
attributed to Matthias Stom (Amersfoort c.1600 - Sicily c.1650)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1625 - 1650
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
864 x 660 mm (34 x 26 in)
Place of origin
Utrecht
Order this imageCollection
Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
NT 1257082
Caption
A nocturnal view of the face of a jovial musician, holding a glass of wine and a fiddle is lit by an unseen candle. The rendition of warm leathery texture skin tones, illuminated by an isolated light at night time, against highlighted colourful clothing, is a feature of the artist. Stom is among the third generation of artists who followed Caravaggio, who came from Holland and trained in Utrecht. By 1630 he was in Rome, he also lived in Naples and by 1641 he had moved to Sicily where he died.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Man with a Glass of Wine, Pipe and Fiddle, attributed to Matthias Stom (Amersfoort c.1600 - Sicily c.1650), second quarter of the 17th century. A Caravaggesque night scene of a musician looking to the right. The warm leathery texture of the skin tones illuminated by an isolated light at nightime is a feature of the artist. Stom is among the third generation of Caravaggisti, who, in Holland, came from or near Utrecht. By 1630 he was in Rome, he also lived in Naples during the 1630s (known documents from July and August 1635 and February and August 1637 - when he was accused of heresy against the Pope during Carnivale that year where he associated witgh sailors, Dutch and Englishmen) and by January 1640 he had moved to Sicily.
Provenance
In the collection of (Sir) Ralph Bankes at Gray's Inn in 1659; Dowdney, 1731, as Frans Hals; 1762, 1764, 1772 etc until Vigers, 1905 as Honthorst; bequeathed by (Henry John) Ralph Bankes (1902 – 1981) to the National Trust, together with the estates of Corfe Castle and Kingston Lacy and its entire contents in 1981
Credit line
Kingston Lacy, The Bankes Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
attributed to Matthias Stom (Amersfoort c.1600 - Sicily c.1650), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Frans Hals (Antwerp c.1581 - Haarlem 1666), artist
References
Bankes 1656-58 Sir Ralph Bankes, Pictures in my Chamber att Grayes Inne, 1656-1658 Bankes 1659 Sir Ralph Bankes, A noate of my Pictures att Grayes Inn & wt thay Cost. Xber ye 23rd 1659, no. 8
