Figures Round a Table by Candlelight // Gerrit Van Deurs // About 1663-1664

This painting represents tenebrism in the way that there is dramatic contrasting lights and shadows happening. This technique makes it look very creepy and almost haunting because there is so many dark, dark shadows throughout the painting. The figures seem stressed and/or worried about something and it is also interesting at how close they all are in the painting. They looked almost trapped in their surroundings.