Collection · 39 prints
The Lantern
Small light against a large dark
The Lantern: paintings, prints and illustrations of lanterns, lamps and street lights at night.
Works include John Singer Sargent's Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (1886), Vincent van Gogh's The Potato Eaters (1885) and Gauguin's Chair, Edgar Degas's Mademoiselle Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs, Léon Spilliaert's lamp-lit Ostend promenade and Odilon Redon's The Beacon. Japanese works include Katsushika Hokusai's lantern ghost (The Ghost of Oiwa), Kitagawa Utamaro's Woman with Lantern, Uemura Shōen and Ohara Koson. Carl Larsson's Around the Evening Lamp, Edmund Dulac and Kay Nielsen illustrations, and lamp posters by Leonetto Cappiello and Reijer Stolk are also included.
The works are grouped by a single source of artificial light, so warm pools of lamplight set against darkness run through the selection.
The warm, low-lit scenes suit bedrooms, dining rooms and reading corners. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
