1681 · Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans

Many authorities believe that this picture is an allegory of study and vigilance, rather than a genre scene without any specific meaning. The painting is a remarkable proof of the long continuation of the early seventeenth-century tenebrist tradition; only the handling of still-life is any indication of the late date of the picture. It is assumed that Gobin worked at Orléans.Show more