I was stunned by this artist's ability to capture light, both on the young woman's face and the diffused light of the misty moonlit scene. I had not heard of him before, but discovered he was famous for precisely this effect.
Petrus van Schendel (1806-1870), Dutch Romantic painter, etcher and draughtsman. Van Schendel specialised in nocturnal Dutch market scenes, exploring the effects the soft light had upon his subjects, as a result he was named Monsieur Chandelle by the French... Petrus van Schendel also had an important precedent within the art of the Low Countries, Rembrandt van Rijn’s masterpiece The Nightwatch.Twenty-five of his paintings are assembled at Wikigallery.
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It might be a night market rather than a misty morning. To me,the sky looks as much like a moonlit sky as it does an early morning sky.
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ReplyDeleteGaah! I just had a vision of that old lady from Spain retouching this painting, and I can't get it out of my mind! Gaah!
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Beautiful effect, but the crooked face is too distracting.
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