# Astronomer by Candlelight

- By: Gerrit Dou (Dutch, 1613 - 1675)
- Date: late 1650s
- Medium: Oil on panel
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Unframed: 32 × 21.2 cm (12 5/8 × 8 3/8 in.)
- Culture: Dutch
- Credit line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Museum: [J. Paul Getty Museum](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103RHZ)
- Rights: [CC0. Digital image courtesy of Getty's Open Content Program](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/85cee024f47eb807446afd885dcc12d7.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)