SCHALCKEN, Godfried
(b. 1643, Made, d. 1706, Den Haag)

Young Girl with a Candle

1670-75
Oil on canvas, 61 x 50 cm
Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence

The searching glow of candlelight and other artificial illumination was one of the effects for which this Dutch painter was most admired. The centuries-old northern realist tradition gleams in the precisely rendered glints of the brass candle holder.