by Lamplight

Godfried Schalcken

Young Man and Woman Studying a Statue of Venus, by Lamplight

https://www.theleidencollection.com/artwork/a-young-man-and-woman-studying-a-statue-of-venus-by-lamplight/

Jansen, Guido. “Young Man and Woman Studying a Statue of Venus, by Lamplight.” In The Leiden Collection Catalogue. Edited by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. New York.

Dame voor de spiegel, bij kaarslicht

Courtesy

https://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/

Godfried Schalcken or Gottfried Schalken (1643 – 16 November 1706) was a Dutch genre and portrait painter. He was noted for his mastery in reproducing the effect of candlelight, and painted in the exquisite and highly polished manner of the Leiden fijnschilders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfried_Schalcken

"Schalcken painted several portraits, of which the half-length of William III of England, now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, is a good example. Like Dou, Schalcken specialised in small scenes lit by candlelight,[1] a technique that found favour with the fijnschilders. Examples are in Buckingham Palace, the Louvre, Vienna and Dresden."