Lamp in art: paintings, drawings and prints

Woman Sewing by Lamplight, Harriet Backer

Woman Sewing by Lamplight, 1890.

Syende kvinne ved lampelys (museum title)

Harriet Backer (Norwegian), oil on canvas, mounted on wood panel

National Museum of Norway

Woman with her needlework, 1918.

Kvinde med håndarbejde (museum title)

Anna Ancher (Danish)

Skagens Museum, Denmark

Interior with Embroiderer, 1915.

Interieur met borduurster (museum title)

Rik Wouters (Belgian), oil on cardboard

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA), Belgium

Le Chahut, 1889.

Le Chahut (museum title)

Georges Seurat (French), oil on canvas

Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands

Paris Interior, 1877.

Párizsi enteriőr (museum title)

Mihály Munkácsy (Hungarian), oil on canvas

Hungarian National Gallery, Hungary

Interior with Woman in Red, Félix Vallotton

Interior with Woman in Red, 1903.

Intérieur avec femme en rouge de dos (museum title)

Félix Vallotton (Swiss), oil on canvas

Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

Anshutz on Anatomy, 1912.

Anshutz on Anatomy (museum title)

John Sloan (American), etching

Minneapolis Institute of Art, United States

The Women's Emergency Canteen, Gare du Nord, Paris, 1919, John Lavery

The Women's Emergency Canteen, Gare du Nord, Paris, 1919, 1919.

The Women's Emergency Canteen, Gare du Nord, Paris, 1919 (museum title)

John Lavery (Irish), oil on canvas

Imperial War Museum, United Kingdom

Turning out the Light, 1905.

Turning out the Light (museum title)

John Sloan (American), etching

Minneapolis Institute of Art, United States

Interior of the Tomb of Sultan Mehmet I, Bursa, John Frederick Lewis

Interior of the Tomb of Sultan Mehmet I, Bursa, 1841.

Interior of the Tomb of Sultan Mehmet I, Bursa (museum title)

John Frederick Lewis (British), watercolor

Victoria and Albert Museum, United Kingdom

Getting Ready for a Game, 1901.

Till en liten vira (museum title)

Carl Larsson (Swedish), oil on canvas

Nationalmuseum, Sweden

Christmas, 1903–1904.

Karácsony (museum title)

József Rippl-Rónai (Hungarian), oil on wood

Hungarian National Gallery, Hungary

X-Rays, 1926.

X-Rays (museum title)

John Sloan (American), etching and aquatint

Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Woman Reading by Lamplight, József Rippl-Rónai

Woman Reading by Lamplight, 1895.

La Liseuse sous la lampe (museum title)

József Rippl-Rónai (Hungarian), color lithograph

National Gallery of Art, United States

Le Chahut (Study I), 1889.

Étude Pour "Le Chahut" (museum title)

Georges Seurat (French), oil on canvas

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, United States

Trees Lit by Lamps at Jajce, Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka

Trees Lit by Lamps at Jajce, 1903.

Villanyvilágította fák Jajcéban (museum title)

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (Hungarian), oil on canvas

Hungarian National Gallery, Hungary

Evening, Interior, 1890.

Aften, interiør (museum title)

Harriet Backer (Norwegian), oil on canvas

National Museum of Norway

Big brother playing, 1890.

Storebror spelar (museum title)

Harriet Backer (Norwegian), oil on canvas

Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden

Music, Interior from Paris, Harriet Backer

Music, Interior from Paris, 1887.

Musikk, interiør fra Paris (museum title)

Harriet Backer (Norwegian), oil on canvas

National Museum of Norway

Interior with Three Figures by Lamplight, Rik Wouters

Interior with Three Figures by Lamplight, c. 1915.

Interieur met drie figuren bij lamplicht (museum title)

Rik Wouters (Belgian), brush and black and brown ink on paper

Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

Interior of the Drawing Room at Lusławice, Jacek Malczewski

Interior of the Drawing Room at Lusławice, 1926.

Wnętrze salonu w Lusławicach (museum title)

Jacek Malczewski (Polish), oil on wood

National Museum in Warsaw, Poland

Confusion of Ideas, Gaganendranath Tagore

Confusion of Ideas, 1917.

Confusion of Ideas (museum title)

Gaganendranath Tagore (Indian), lithograph

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom

Interior, c. 1910.

Interior (museum title)

Helen McNicoll (Canadian), oil on canvas

Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada

Portrait of Georg Brandes, critic and writer, Peder Severin Krøyer

Portrait of Georg Brandes, critic and writer, 1900.

Portræt af kritikeren og forfatteren Georg Brandes (museum title)

Peder Severin Krøyer (Danish), oil on wood

The Hirschsprung Collection, Denmark

My Love of my Country is as big as I am, Gaganendranath Tagore

My Love of my Country is as big as I am, 1917.

My Love of my Country is as big as I am (museum title)

Gaganendranath Tagore (Indian), lithograph

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom

The Nightingale

The Nightingale (museum title)

Harry Clarke (Irish), ink, graphite, watercolor, gouache and glazes, with bodycolor highlights

National Gallery of Ireland

Portrait of Theater Director Bjørn Bjørnson, Erik Werenskiold

Portrait of Theater Director Bjørn Bjørnson, 1910.

Teatersjef Bjørn Bjørnson i Nationaltheatret (museum title)

Erik Werenskiold (Norwegian), oil on canvas

National Museum of Norway

Le Salon privé, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Le Salon privé, 1899.

Le Salon privé (museum title)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French), oil on canvas

Courtauld Gallery, United Kingdom

The Eastern Railway Station at Night, Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka

The Eastern Railway Station at Night, 1902.

A Keleti pályaudvar éjjel (museum title)

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (Hungarian), oil on canvas

Ottó Herman Museum, Hungary

Polin, 1898.

Polin (museum title)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French), crayon lithograph printed in gray-black on china paper

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Las Meninas, 1656.

Les Ménines (museum title)

Diego Velázquez (Spanish), oil on canvas

Prado Museum, Spain

The Red Blind, 1916.

Den röda rullgardinen (museum title)

Sigrid Hjertén (Swedish), oil on canvas

Moderna Museet, Sweden

Still Life: Books, Mask and Lamp, Hugh Ramsay

Still Life: Books, Mask and Lamp, 1902.

Still life - books, mask and lamp (museum title)

Hugh Ramsay (Australian), oil on canvas

Art Gallery of South Australia

The Artist's Mother -in-Law, Ane Hedvig Brøndum, Reading a Letter, Michael Ancher

The Artist's Mother -in-Law, Ane Hedvig Brøndum, Reading a Letter, 1907.

En gammel kone, der læser et brev. Ane hedvig Brøndum… (museum title)

Michael Ancher (Danish), oil on canvas

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Interior with potted plant on card table, Bredgade 25, Vilhelm Hammershøi

Interior with potted plant on card table, Bredgade 25, 1910–1911.

Interior with potted plant on card table, Bredgade 25 (museum title)

Vilhelm Hammershøi (Danish), oil on canvas

Malmö Art Museum, Sweden

Army Post Office 3, Boulogne, 1919, John Lavery

Army Post Office 3, Boulogne, 1919, 1919.

Army Post Office 3, Boulogne, 1919 (museum title)

John Lavery (Irish), oil on canvas

Imperial War Museum, United Kingdom

Interior with Red Armchair and Figures, Félix Vallotton

Interior with Red Armchair and Figures, 1899.

Intérieur fauteuil rouge et figures (museum title)

Félix Vallotton (Swiss), gouache on cardboard

Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

The Sick Girl, 1892.

La Malade (museum title)

Félix Vallotton (Swiss), oil on canvas

Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

Lieven Willemsz. van Coppenol, writing master: the smaller plate, Rembrandt van Rijn

Lieven Willemsz. van Coppenol, writing master: the smaller plate, c. 1658.

De schrijfmeester Lieven Willemsz. van Coppenol: kleine… (museum title)

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch), etching

Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

Scene from Voltaire's "Le triumvirat", presumably Act 2, Scene 2, Nicolai Abildgaard

Scene from Voltaire's "Le triumvirat", presumably Act 2, Scene 2, c. 1798–1801.

Scene fra Voltaires "Le triumvirat", formodentlig 2.akt.… (museum title)

Nicolai Abildgaard (Danish), pencil, white chalk, pen and Indian ink on brown paper

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Self-Portrait, 1915.

Zelfportret (museum title)

Émile Claus (Belgian), pastel on paper

Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent (MSK Gent), Belgium

Masked Ballroom Dance, 1907.

Álarcosbál (museum title)

János Vaszary (Hungarian), oil on canvas

Hungarian National Gallery, Hungary

A Visit to a New Mother, Mihály Munkácsy

A Visit to a New Mother, 1879.

Besuch bei einer Wöchnerin (museum title)

Mihály Munkácsy (Hungarian), oil on mahogany panel

Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Pastry Stall, 1922.

Het gebakkraam (museum title)

Constant Permeke (Belgian), oil on canvas

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA), Belgium

Miner with a Lamp

Miner with a Lamp (museum title)

Constantin Meunier (Belgian), oil on wood

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA), Belgium

Woman in a Pink Shawl Sewing by Lamplight, Félix Vallotton

Woman in a Pink Shawl Sewing by Lamplight, 1901.

Femme, châle rose, cousant à la lampe (museum title)

Félix Vallotton (Swiss), oil on canvas

Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland

Yeats at Petitpas', 1910–1914.

Yeats at Petitpas' (museum title)

John Sloan (American), oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art, United States

The hermit of Wellington harbour, Petrus van der Velden

The hermit of Wellington harbour, 1904–1912.

The hermit of Wellington harbour (museum title)

Petrus van der Velden (New Zealander), oil on cardboard

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand

Night Fishing at Castellammare, Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka

Night Fishing at Castellammare, 1901.

Esti halászat Castellammareban (museum title)

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (Hungarian), oil on canvas

Janus Pannonius Museum, Hungary

Third Class Carriage, 1864.

Third Class Carriage (museum title)

Honoré Daumier (French), brush and black ink and gray wash, black chalk and black chalk wash, with spattered gray gouache, pen and black ink, on cream wove paper

Art Institute of Chicago, United States