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Reading by Candlelight, 17th Century Dutch Interior Oil Painting, Dutch Frame

$12,362.70List Price

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Oil on oak panel Image size: 10 x 12 ½ inches (25.5 x 31.75 cm) Period style Dutch frame Provenance English, private collection In this painting a woman is seated in a dark room, reading a large book by the light of a single lit candle. She leads eagerly towards the illuminated page but her eyes are almost closed - she could be squinting to see in the low light or perhaps she is simply tired after a long day. The viewer is drawn into the intimacy of the scene (the woman is not aware that she is being watched) however, she remains physically separated from us by the end of the table and the flowing fabric that falls from the edge. Depictions of women holding a book were common in Dutch genre paintings from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Captivating images, such as this, showed women reading and although, as in this image, the contents of these texts are rarely legible, they invite curiosity and contemplation, drawing the beholder into intimate, domestic spaces. These scenes emphasised the women's engagement with the written word and demonstrate a remarkable interest in representing their intellectual lives. Portraying women reading was also a means of indicating piety as well as education and even a certain social status. Cornelis Bisschop Cornelis Bisschop was a Dutch Golden Age painter. In 1650 he was a student of Ferdinand Bol in Amsterdam. In 1653 he was back in Dordrecht, where he got married. According to Houbraken he was the first to paint carved trompe-l'œil wooden panels in such an ingenious way that they became quite popular. He painted historical allegories, portraits, still lifes, and genre-works. Bisschop often chose to depict women – old and young – in a homely environment. He was asked to paint for the Danish court, but he died unexpectedly, leaving his wife and eleven children. Of these children, two sons Abraham and Jacobus and three daughters became painters. These had been his students along with Margaretha van Godewijk who wrote an emblem about his self-portrait with a curtain, which illustrates the legend of Zeuxis.

Dimensions:
Height: 12.5 in (31.75 cm)Width: 8 in (20.32 cm)
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1 of 1Price: $12,363
Medium:
Oak,Oil,Panel
Movement Style:
Dutch School
Circle Of:
Cornelis Bisschop (1630 - 1674, Dutch)
Period:
17th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
London, GB
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU52413325332

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