Young Woman Holding a Candle in a Bedchamber

Nicholas Verkolje|Godfried Schalcken

1690–1715 · Mezzotint · Drawings and Prints

Verkolje, a painter of portraits and subject pictures active in Amsterdam, learned mezzotint printmaking from his father. In the present work, he reproduced a design by Schalcken, a Dutch painter and etcher celebrated throughout Europe for his depiction of artificial light. (During an extended sojourn in London, from 1692 to 1697, Schalcken famously painted King William III by candlelight.)

Artist

Nicholas Verkolje|Godfried Schalcken

Date

1690–1715

Medium

Mezzotint

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1968