The story
Honthorst learned candlelight in Italy, where he was called Gerardo delle Notti. The Vereniging Rembrandt bought this candlelit brothel scene for Utrecht in 1951.
The Matchmaker (The Procuress)
1625
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Object details
- Title
- The Matchmaker (The Procuress)
- Artist
- Gerard van Honthorst
- Date
- 1625
- Culture
- Not recorded
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Object type
- Paintings
- Collection
- Centraal Museum, Utrecht
- Credit line
- Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
- Object number
- EFA.0246
- Original image
- 3000 × 2040 px
- Source record
- View on Wikimedia Commons
- License evidence
- See the license
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