Genre
Candlelight
To paint by a single flame is to accept that most of the world stays dark. Caravaggio’s followers and Georges de La Tour built whole pictures on one wick — a face lit from below, everything else surrendered to shadow.
Key artists
Works
The Lacemaker
The Letter
A Young Woman and a Cavalier
Card Players in a Drawing Room
The Highland Family
The Temptation
Grandmother's Treasure
The Newborn Baby
The Happy Mother
The Visit
幻の源氏物語絵巻 「葵」|“Leaves of Wild Ginger” (Aoi), from the Phantom Genji Scrolls (Maboroshi no Genji monogatari emaki)
Courtesan Reading a Letter
Desdemona (The Song of the Willow)
Las postrimerías de Fernando III el Santo
Mirror or Light Reflector
A Celebration
Tavern Scene
The Nightmare
Último sueño de una virgen
Young Woman with a Candlestick, Old Woman and a Violin Player
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
The Lover Leaves Wistfully in the Morning after a Passionate Tryst: Lalit Ragini, from a Ragamala
The infant son of the king of Isfahan responds to music, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirteenth Night
Shahr-Arai’s husband bends to kiss his wife who feigns sleep, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fortieth Night
In order to falsely implicate her husband, Hamnaz places a knife by his side and lets the blood dripping from her nose stain his clothes, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fifth Night
The dream of Zulaykha, from the Amber Album
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Seventh Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
A Princess on a Terrace with Attendants at Night (recto)
Khalis repays the prince for his kindness by changing into a snake and sucking the poison from the king’s daughter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighteenth Night
Maharana Bhim Singh of Mewar (r. 1778–1828) with a Consort
The vizier’s son receives the magic wooden parrot from the wife of the merchant, who is drunk, and has a replica made by a carpenter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night
Lovers Embracing (Raga Malkaus)
A Couple Seated Against Two Pillows Making Love
Ghost and Oil Lamp
Pancham Raga
Kamjuy, the wife of the Raja, averts her face from the fishes, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-third Night
A Family Meal
Card Game at "le Père Martin"
The Kitchen of the Rôtisserie des Deux Paons
The pious man’s son, now a king, reveals himself to his father; his nurse upbraids his unfaithful mother, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night
The deceitful wife assaults her erring husband, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Lovers and an Old Crone
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
A princess on a terrace with attendants at night (recto); Calligraphy (verso)
Tratado de Cambray
Monkeys smoking and drinking
Merry Company
Coast at Dieppe
The drunkard
Monk Kenkō Reading by Lamplight
Study for the Ceiling of the Marquand Music Room
Taste in High Life
The Thank Offering
PALATIN
Últimos momentos de Cervantes
Rahbek ved sin hustrus dødsleje
A Chemist in his Laboratory
Galant gezelschap
In a Salt Refinery at Rupelmonde
Chintila, rey godo
Cervantes en sus últimos días escribe la dedicatoria del Quijote al conde de Lemos
Music in the kitchen
River view by moonlight
Untitled
Leonora Christina being Examined in Prison
Leonora Christina in Blåtårn
Music Lesson
Ludvig Holberg Attending a Rehearsal of his Play Erasmus Montanus, Act IV, Scene 2
The Council of Nicaea A.D. 787
Grotesque Dancers Performing
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Fifteenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
The lemon slice
The Blind Beggar
The Alchemist
Women Working in a Glass Factory
Una vestal
La última comunión de San Diego de Alcalá
Rehearsal for a Play
Young Man drawing
Viático de santa Teresa
Shoemaker workshop
Sitting Monk, Reading
Gallant Scene in a Kitchen Interior
Interior of a Peasant Hut
'Alone in the World'
A Peasant Family
The Tradeswoman
A Jewish Wedding
Tired Out (Mother Watched)
Arabella Stuart
The Casino
The musical gathering
The Moneylender and His Wife
Story of Krishna and Radha
Bagpipe Music and Singing. The Five Senses: The Sense of Hearing
Kæltringbal. Blicher ved taterhytten
Girl with a Candle
Interiør
En vildttyv og hans datter forskrækkes af skovvogterne ved nat
Violin Player
Dutch Farm Cottage
Card Players
Merry Company
Boy Reading at Artificial Light
Interiør med en regnskabsfører og nogle skrivere ved stearinlys
Over midnat
An Inn
The Alchemist
A Sick Peasant Woman
The Tinker
Domestic Scenery
Papirius and his Mother
A Smithy
Den politiske Kandestøber, II akt, 2. scene
Køkkenstykke
A Game of Cards at an Inn
Køkkenstykke
Fader og søn
The Children Saying Good Night to their Stars
A Smoker
Den strenge vinter i Faulum
The Long Awaited Letter
An Alchemist in his Laboratory
Bijeenkomst van de Vrije Jagers te Brugge
Schlafende Frau
Das letzte Abendmahl (Nachahmer)
Lesende Mönche (Art des)
Bildnis des Juweliers Abraham Desmarées
Salomons Gebet zur Tempeleinweihung
Die Falschspieler (Werkstatt)
Die Suppenesserin
Der Geruch
Häusliche Szene
Zechende Bauern
Dorf am Meer
Eine Barbierstube
Ruhende Tiere
Konversationsstück
Die Befreiung Petri (Kopie nach)
Lustige Gesellschaft
Musikalische Gesellschaft
Genrestück (?)
Amusing Company
Apfelschälende Frau
Farmer's tavern
Bauernkneipe (Nachahmer)
Teegesellschaft
Der Alchemist
Die Suppenesserin
Lesende Nonnen (Art des)
Zwei Bauern und ein altes Weib in der Schenke
Smyrna (Bazaar)
Fumadores
Scene with soldier
La cena de primera comunión de la pequeña portera
Elegant company in an interior oder Banquet of courtesans and soldiers
Entierro de San Lorenzo en las catacumbas de Roma
Muerte del príncipe de Viana
Peasant Dwelling-Place
Peasants in the Interior (Family Scene)
Farm interior with newspaper reader
Monk from Calais
Girl with a Doll
Peasant Holding an Empty Mug
Drunkard
Children Expecting the Christmas Feast
Einem verwundeten Offizier wird die letzte Ölung erteilt
Halt of Gipsies
Vestal Virgin
Dear Guest from Afar
Old woman in the pantry
Court table at the time of Emperor Leopold I
Card-Playing
Laundresses in the Ruins
Recovering
Old Man in the Kitchen
Der Wechsler Orazio Lago, seine Frau und ein Klient
Temple over the Canon, Segesta
Wounded uhlan by the wayside shrine
Courtship of an old man
Old man with a pipe in the window
Merry-making in a tavern
Genre scene in the countryside
Doctor’s appointment
Company at the table
Scene in a tavern
In the alchemist's study
Sealing a letter with wax
Episode from the Crimean Wars – Scene in prison
Café in Paris
Smokers in a tavern
Destitution in a peasant cottage
Family scene indoors by candlelight
The Alchemist
Prayer
A Boy Lousing a Dog
Death of Barbara Radziwiłł
Brother robbers, sketch for a painting
Glass of wine
Company
Frequently asked questions
What is Candlelight?
Candlelight is a quality of light in painting. To paint by a single flame is to accept that most of the world stays dark.
How many Candlelight works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 1,257 public-domain Candlelight works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key Candlelight artists?
Key Candlelight artists in the collection include Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Jean Honoré Fragonard and Hubert Robert.