Public Domain Victorian Art for Collage, Junk Journaling or DIY Wall Art: Market by Candlelight by Petrus van Schendel

We think that the time machine was not invented,
but the candle is actually a time machine!
Light a candle and get out of the moment you are in, travel to other times!
― Mehmet Murat ildan
I found this painting called "Market by Candlelight" (painted in 1869) by Petrus van Schendel (1806 - 1870) on Wikimedia here. Van Schendel was a Dutch-Belgian genre painter in the Romantic style who specialized in nighttime scenes, lit by lamps or candles. This led to him being known as "Monsieur Chandelle".

If you like, you can download my digitally enhanced version (8" x 12" @ 300 ppi JPEG) of the above painting here. I thought it would make be interesting incorporated into a collage or junk journal project but you can also simply print and frame for DIY wall art.


Colour-enhanced reproductions of public domain fine art are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.