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Gerrit van Honthorst

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Gerard "Gerrit" van Honthorst was a Dutch Golden Age painter who became known for his depiction of artificially lit scenes, eventually receiving the Italian nickname Gherardo delle Notti. Early in his career he visited Rome, where he had great success painting in a style influenced by Caravaggio. Following his return to the Netherlands he became a leading portrait painter. Van Honthorst's contemporaries included Utrecht painters Hendrick ter Brugghen and Dirck van Baburen.

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Musical Scene

1625 · black ink wash over pen and brown ink and black chalk over graphite on gray-brown paper with white heightening, incised

Support: 23.3 x 26.8 x 0.3 cm (9 3/16 x 10 9/16 x 1/8 in.); Image: 17.3 x 20.2 cm (6 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

A Boy Blowing on a Firebrand

1621 · Oil on canvas

75.5 × 64.5 cm (30 × 25 3/8 in.); Framed: 100.7 × 88.6 × 5.4 cm (39 5/8 × 34 7/8 × 2 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Christ in the Garden of Olives

1615 · Black chalk, brush and gray wash, and pen and brown ink, heightened with white chalk, with traces of graphite, on gray-brown laid paper, incised with a stylus for transfer

31.2 × 23.3 cm (12 5/16 × 9 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Samson and Delilah

1615 · oil on canvas

Framed: 158.4 x 122.5 x 11.8 cm (62 3/8 x 48 1/4 x 4 5/8 in.); Case: 139.7 x 177.8 x 28 cm (55 x 70 x 11 in.); Unframed: 129 x 94 cm (50 13/16 x 37 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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