Astronomer by Candlelight
Gerrit Dou1665
Catalogue Entry
- ArtWiki ID
- #12206
- Interest
- 75 views2 saves
15k artist readers/yr - Rank
- #3,190 of 33,556score +3
- Date
- 1665
- Medium
- Oil paint, panel[3]
- Material
- Oil paint1,379Panel153
- Dimensions
- 32 × 21.2 cm[3]
- Style
- Baroque
- Period
- 17th Century
- Origin
Dutch- Subject
- PortraitsMaleStill Life
- Figures
- Man265
- Color DNA
Full breakdown
Neutral74.05%#12100doklch(0.174 0.01 86.5)PMS Black 6 C Brown18.62%#452e19oklch(0.323 0.048 63.1)PMS 4625 C Ochre4.98%#9c7136oklch(0.579 0.094 72.4)PMS 8960 C Yellow1.74%#cfb15doklch(0.764 0.109 91.2)PMS 617 C Every pixel classified in OKLCH · Pantone is the nearest match.
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Market
127,000 GBP +11170%
source
Jul 2025
Sales history · 20
- 127,000 GBPPortrait of a young man, here identified as Dirck van Beresteyn (1627–1653), seated in his studyJul 2025
- 5,680,000 USDMan Writing by an Easel in an Artist's StudioMay 2025
- 50,400 USDAn elderly woman, traditionally identified as Rembrandt's motherJan 2023
- 746,000 USDYoung man drawing by candlelightJan 2022
- 5,625 GBPA young lady in a niche, with a perroquet and a birdcageOct 2015
- 610,000 USDPortrait of a ScholarApr 2015
- 13,750 GBPAn old woman eating porridge by candlelightJul 2014
- 146,500 GBPA young girl at a window ledge with a cat and a mouse-trap, a hung duck and a pewter ewer beside herJul 2013
- 5,346,500 USDAn elderly woman, seated by a window at her spinning wheel, eating porridgeJan 2011
- 43,750 USDHermit at PrayerJan 2009
- 109,250 GBPA landscape with a goatJul 2008
- 750 EURPraying monk sitting at a tableSep 2007
- 628,000 USDYoung girl with a perroquet in a nicheJun 2007
- 2,160 EURRagazza alla finestra con un vaso di garofaniNov 2006
- 15,600 EURA woman at a partially draped casement with dead fowl in a bucket by a birdcage and flowers in an urnMay 2006
- 3,360 EURA woman standing in a stone niche, holding a copper bowl with peaches, two girls with a basket of eggs beside herMar 2006
- 84,000 USDAn old man in an interiorJan 2006
- 1,248,000 USDA Bearded Old ManJan 2006
- 6,600 GBPAn old man with a rosaryJul 2005
- 48,000 GBPInterior with a woman holding a candleJul 2004
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