Candlelit Figures in Introspection

Artistic representations of individuals engaged in quiet reflection or study, illuminated by candlelight, conveying a sense of solitude.

Pipe Smoking Man, Pieter Louw, Cornelis Troost, 1743 - 1800

Lithographer at work in his workshop, Jos Ratinckx, 1889 print paper etching workshop-interior. artist at work, in his workshop. lithographer

François Nicolas figure (1825-1901). "An echo in the hill". Albumin paper. 1868. Paris, house of Victor Hugo.

Depiction by Louis Aubert of two painters working in a workshop, executed in black and reddish chalk with watercolor over lead pencil in 1747.

MILTON , JOHN. ESCRITOR INGLES. 1608 - 1674. " MILTON VENDIENDO A UN EDITOR SU MANUSCRITO DE " EL PARAISO PERDIDO ". CUADRO DE BIANCHI. GRABADO DE LA ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA.

Photograph of painting: Jan Śniadecki at the workshop of the observatory of the University of Vilnius. unknown, photographer

'The Moneylenders', c1515, (1912). Artist: Quentin Metsys I.

Draughtsman sketching a plaster head, draughtsman: Carl Heinrich Mylius, after: Christian Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski, 1756, paper, brush, h 150 mm × w 200 mm

The Politician. by William Hogarth (1697ñ1764), English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist. Shows a politician reading the newspaper, holding the candle close to his eyes for better reading while not becoming aware of how it burns through his hat

Artisan restorer of 19th century paintings and sculptures from Upper Tyrol by Sigmund Eggert (1839-1896) German painter. Germany, Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from El Mundo Ilustrado 1879

Self-Portrait Artist's working dates 1795-1851 England. Watercolor with graphite on tan wove card . Joseph Mallord William Turner

Crpes and Beignets, from Cris de Paris, Cries of Paris, drawing by Joly, engraving by Petit and Martinet, c.1812

Reading monk, reading, book, monk (s), friar (s), B.J. de Vries jr. (signed by artist), c. 1850 - c. 1900, paper, drypoint, h 262 mm × w 329 mm

Drawing of a woman seated at a table with a large piece of cloth, 1800 - 1899, China. Drawing depicting Chinese furniture and costumes

A man confined to the stocks with his legs is watched by a horse from its paddock. Wood engraving.

. Departure with an old man, who reads a book by candlelight.

Drawing room in Felix Meritis, 1789, Reinier Vinkeles (I), after Pieter Barbiers (I), after Jacques Kuyper, 1801 print Drawing lessons in the drawing room in the building of the Felix Meritis Maatschappij in Amsterdam, inaugurated in 1789. Artists draw to Gipsmodel. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving place or institution of education and training of the artist, e.g.: academy of art. learned society, academy of sciences. drawing-lesson Happy merits

A Woman Cleaning, Plate 5 from Five Feminine Occupations ca. 1648-50 Geertruydt Roghman Dutch Roghman, from an Amsterdam family of artists, is known for some reproductive prints and her original suite of five engravings, "Household Tasks": sewing, spinning, reading (), cooking, and cleaning cookware (see 56.500.2-.6). The two subjects set in kitchens are unusual in that the solitary maids are seen from behind. Each print presents a sober view of domestic work, but the kitchen scenes are remarkable for the figures' complete lack of individuality, to say nothing of appeal. In comparing Roghman's images of household servants with those of Dou and Vermeer, it is tempting to distinguish male and female points of view (as some critics have rather emphatically). Whatever the interpretation, it is important to bear in mind that Roghman's prints were intended for a broad art market, whereas Dou's famously expensive paintings (as opposed to the later prints after them) and The Milkmaid by Verme

Chevillet, Justus, inventor: Gerard Terborch, work, La Santée portée, ca. 1750, copper engraving, graphics, plate width 30.8 cm, plate height 42.9 cm, leaf width 33.9 cm, leaf height 43.7 cm, image width 29.7 cm, image height 35.8 cm

TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES

Schmidt, Georg Friedrich, Rijn, Rembrandt van, Old man shading his eyes with his hand, verso central, print, prints, height 138 mm, width 114 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1606-07-15 - 1669-10-08, print maker, printmaker, 1770 - 1770, third quarter 18th century, paper, etching, etchings, drypoint, dry needle, Work conception, after own design by, German, 1712-01-24 - 1775-01-25

Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford third quarter 19th century British. Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford 229874

A Painter Seated at his Easel Painter sitting in front of his easel, draughtsman: Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671, paper, pen, brush, h 149 mm × w 99 mm

Worn out, Gogh, Vincent, van (1853-1890)

'THE VALENTINE,' BY W. HUNT, 1874

Honoré Daumier, C'est bien aujourd'hui 28 Juillet , 19th century C'est bien aujourd'hui 28 Juillet ...

The 1891 caption reads: Armed herself with a footstool - spoken by Miss Matty. It is taken from Mrs Gaskells novel Cranford and illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Elizabeth C Gaskell (died 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë, published in 1857, was the first biography of Brontë. Among Gaskell's best known novels is Cranford (1851-5

Ironing woman, draughtsman: Jan Veth, 1874 - 1925, paper, h 318 mm × w 209 mm

Miturich, Pyotr Vasilyevich (1887-1956) Private Collection Graphic arts Portrait Portrait of the poet Ossip Mandelstam (1891-1938)

Knife-sharpener at thewheel. Artist: Franz Schaur, Austrian, active 18th century After: Franz Lactanz de Firmian, Austrian, 1712-1786

Coffee shop at the corner of the Porte Saint-Denis in 1830 Hippolyte-Benjamin Adam (1808-1853). Coffee shop at the corner of the Porte Saint-Denis in 1830. Watercolor.

The laster. Prints. 1885-01. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Shoemakers, Shoe industry, Shoemaking

Interior with man who cleans fish and two children. Draughtsman: Abraham Delfos. After Quiringh Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam. Dating: 1741 - 1820. Measurements: h 405 mm × w 345 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

The Scholar's Mate. Artist: Oscar Gustav Rejlander (British, born Sweden, 1813-1875). Dimensions: Mount: 16 in. × 12 7/8 in. (40.6 × 32.7 cm)Image: 7 15/16 × 6 9/16 in. (20.2 × 16.7 cm). Date: 1857-59. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

De Winter, Pierre Louis Surugue, After David Teniers (II), 1749 print Personification of winter as an old man who warms his hands on his meal, with a landscape with skating riders in the background. Paris paper etching / engraving winter, 'Hyems'; 'Inverno' (Ripa) (+ with scenes showing human occupations ~ seasons and months)

Relis-moi ce neuviemechapitre.. Artist: Paul Gavarni, French, 1804-1866

HEGEL , GEORGE W. FRIDRICH. FILOSOFO ALEMAN 1771 - 1831. " HEGEL EN SU ESTUDIO ". GRABADO.

Melancholia: a female figure contemplating a skull, surrounded by attributes of knowledge and learning. Engraving after D. Fetti.

'Woman with a bowl (About 1897)', c1897, (1946). Artist: Edouard Vuillard.

J. Challier in his prison sic

On Sunday morning, peacefully the cantor sits here at the important main business of his toilet to then start his way to church an hour later in the adornment of this majestic wig, after a painting by Emil Brack, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Painting of Charles, Prince of Viana (1421-1461) the son of King John II of Aragon and Queen Blanche I of Navarre. Dated 15th Century

LIKE SHIPS UPON THE SEA, DRAWN BY SYDNEY HALL, 1883; She insisted on Bini's taking his place in the armchair, pushed aside a mass of papers to make room for him to write, and took up her post on the dusty magenta-coloured sofa, announcing that she did not mean to leave it until Bini should have completed his task.

Illustration with standing woman in black clothing at Window at Poem Duils by Felicien Champsaur, E.A. Coulon, 1895 print Illustration with woman in black clothing standing at the bottom a staircase by a window. She is in mourning and looks outside, according to the poem dolitions of Felicien Champsaur print maker: Francepublisher: Parisprinter: Paris paper female sex; woman. mourning the dead. mourning dress

A Man Smoking. Date/Period: Ca. 1670s. Painting. Oil on panel Oil. Height: 171 mm (6.73 in); Width: 141 mm (5.55 in). Author: Adriaen van Ostade.

Boy near candlelight, Anna Kobell, 1805 - 1847

Night Watchman, Print made by John Bogle, 1746-1804, British, 1776, Etching on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper, Sheet: 17 3/4 x 11 15/16 inches (45.1 x 30.3 cm), Plate: 13 7/8 x 9 5/16 inches (35.3 x 23.7 cm), and Image: 11 15/16 x 8 11/16 inches (30.4 x 22.1 cm), architectural subject, buildings, city, dark, door, flames, food, gates, genre subject, lamps (lighting device components), lantern, man, night, nightstick, pocket watch, porches, road, store, street, watchman, windows, wine, woman, England, Europe, Greater London, London, United Kingdom

Reading of the Office of the Day (La lecture de l'office). Dated: 1868. Medium: drypoint. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Alphonse Legros.

'Charles, Prince of Viana', 1881, Oil on canvas. Author: JOSE MORENO CARBONERO (1860-1942). Location: DIPUTACION FORAL. Pamplona. NAVARRA. SPAIN. VIANA PRINCIPE DE CARLOS. PRINCIPE DE VIANA CARLOS.

Wood engraving depicting an engraver working in a block with the aid of an eye-glass. Dated 19th century

VIVES , JUAN LUIS. HUMANISTA Y FIFLOSOFO ESPAÑOL. 1492 - 1540. GRABADO RETRATO DE LA COLECCION " VARONES ILUSTRES ". CALCOGRAFIA NACIONAL. MADRID.

Engraving showing the scene within one of the Royal Academy of Arts' galleries as the porters manoevre paintings prior to their hanging, 1887. At the bottom of the image one of the porters rises up from the basement, on a lift, with a large number of paintings. This image was originally entitled 'The Royal Academy - The Hurly Burly'. Date: 7 May 1887

C'est bien aujourd'hui 28 juilllet.... Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). Lithographs

Madame Roland (1754-1793) writes in jail a letter to Robespierre. France. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Histoire de la Revolution Francaise 1876 by Jules Michelet (1798-1874)

Ten-year old Lucie Guyon, locked in her room for months on end by her cruel parents, throws herself out of the window, dies as she falls through a glass roof Date: 16 August 1898

William Humphrys, 1794-1865, Irish, Il Biglietto D' Amore, A Contadina (of Frascuti) Dictating to one of the Scribes.., undated. Engraving.

Unknown, Fashionable Lady with an Easel, 19th Century, watercolor, gouache, brush and brown ink over pencil on paper.

LONGHI, Pietro Falca, called Pietro (1702-1785). 'The pharmacist', 1752. Venetian school. Detail. Costumbrism. Oil on canvas. ITALY. VENETO. Venice. Gallerie dell'Accademia (Academy Gallery).

Facsimile of an etching by Rembrandt, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1847.

Portrait d'un graveur. Artist: Unknown (French). Date: 1860s-70s. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: Unknown (French).

A painter's room at the painting competition in Rome, Italy, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 601, Volume XXIV, September 2, 1854.

Spitzenklöpplerin, Klöppeln, Klöppelarbeit, aus dem Kanton Sankt Gallen, um 1880, Schweiz, digital verbesserte Reproduktion einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Historisch, genaues Datum unbekannt

Not being able to nodier show the shining mind, we made it reading a loved book ... (title registered (letter)) | Jean-Charles-Emmanuel says Charles Nodier (1780-1844) (Title) | Pantheon Charivaric, N�95. (Title of the whole)

Antanas Zmuidzinavicius (1876-1966). Lithuanian painter. All Night Long, 1906. National Gallery of Art. Vilnius, Lithuania.

Aschenbrödel, junges Mädchen barfuß, umgeben von vielen Tauben, in der Küche, 1860, Deutschland, Historisch, authentisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated 1f-4903991

The best steel pens are the Spencerian , Boys, Pens, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Artwork: "Room in Signal Quarters," China, 1945 Artist: John G. Hanlen. Country: Unknown

Smoking man at a table with a plate, a knife and a glass. Draughtsman: Aert Schouman. After Gabriël Metsu. Dating: 1778. Measurements: h 197 mm × w 158 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Bliżej Kultury Eljasz Radzikowski, Walery (1841 1905), Unknown

An engraving depicting typesetters at The Times working by gaslight. Dated 19th century

Illustration depicting a medieval English silversmith, at work

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