Subject
Candle
Candle is a subject in art. The gallery holds 105 works in this subject in art, including works by Georges de La Tour, Jacques-Louis David and Willem Claesz Heda.
A candle is an ignitable wick embedded in wax, or another flammable solid substance such as tallow, that provides light, and in some cases, a fragrance. A candle can also provide heat or a method of keeping time.
Key artists
Works
The Penitent Magdalen
The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Banquet Piece with Mince Pie
Domestic Scene
The Artist's Studio
The Holy Family with Shepherds
An Evening School
Interior of a Catholic Church
The Annunciation
Vanits still life
Saint Donatian; Saint Victor Presenting a Donor
Una escena de la Inquisición
Vanitas Still Life
The Pardon in Brittany
Temptation of St. Anthony
Adoration of the Magi Triptych
Den gamle mand ved spedelyset
Las postrimerías de Fernando III el Santo
Still life of fish with a candlestick
Saint Jerome in His Study
A Duet
Interior with a Girl Reading
Saint Jerome in his study
Overturned Jug and Other Items on the Tablecloth
Lady attending to her toilet
Pope Alexander III Consecrates Anthelm of Chignin as Bishop of Belley
Landuino Dies in Jail
Musician Angels Appear to Saint Hugo of Lincoln
Young Woman with a Candle
Saint Jerome
The Death of the Virgin
Saint Jerome in his Study
Interior de la capilla de San Bernardo donde se juramentaron los comuneros de Castilla (hoy sacristía mayor de la catedral de Ávila) en ocasión de celebrarse una conferencia por su obispo y cabildo
Doña Joanna the Mad
Último sueño de una virgen
Young Woman with a Candlestick, Old Woman and a Violin Player
A Young Woman Writing a Letter
Portrait of Charles-Louis Baron de Keverberg de Kessel
Tuning the lute
Nativity
The Death of Saint Bruno
Vanitas
Monkeys smoking and drinking
Student's Materials
Ceres in the House of Hecuba
Still life with skull, books, candle and a flask
The ghost of Samuel appears to the witch of Endor; Saul falls prostrate to the ground (1 Samuel 28:3-20)
Triptych with allegory in art education
The Thank Offering
Painter in his Studio
Pedir limosna para enterrar a don Álvaro de Luna
Fumadores
A Merchant by Candlelight
Retrato mortuorio del pintor Joaquín Araujo
La primera comunión
The Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Ildefonso
Old Man reading by Candlelight
El viático a bordo
Smokers and Drinkers
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
'Differing tastes'
Girl with an Oil Lamp at a Window
A girl putting a candle in a lantern and a boy testing the fire in a footwarmer
A man with a pipe and a man filling his glass
Still Life with Books and a Globe
Self-portrait
A Man Singing by Candlelight
Still life with candle and watch
Legende van de heilige Godelieve
Binnenzicht
Woman with a candle that a boy tries to blow out
The Gardener
Procesión del Viernes Santo en el Coliseo de Roma
Última comunión de san Jerónimo o El viático de san Jerónimo
Pygmalion
A Boy Blowing on an Ember to Light a Candle
A Girl Reading a Letter
The Physician
A Young Woman engaged at the Supper-table
Young woman winding up a watch by candlelight
A Boy Blowing on a Firebrand
The Elder with a Candle
The Piano Lesson
Vanitas Still-Life
Sealing a letter with wax
For the Candlemas
Woman with a Taper
Young Girl with a Candle
White candlestick
A pitonisa de Endor
Young man with a decanter by candlelight
Boy lighting a candle from a wick
Young Woman Holding a Lamp
Old woman and a boy with a candle
Old woman and a boy with a candle
Girl with Burning Candle
Sibyl Reading
Girl with a Candle
Young Man with a Candle
Nuori tyttö kynttilä kädessä, kopio Gottfried Schalckerin mukaan
Natură statică cu sfeșnic
Fire and Light (A Girl Places a Candle in a Lantern and a Boy Blows on the Coals in a Chafing-Dish)
The Smoker (A Man with a Pipe and a Man Pouring a Beverage into a Glass)
Candlelight
Efect de lumină