# Magdalen with the Smoking Flame [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LA TOUR, Georges de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 117 x 92 cm ## Commentary Magdalen with the Smoking Flame c. 1640 Oil on canvas, 117 x 92 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Around 1620 a group of young French painters developed interesting derivations from works by Caravaggio. Among these we find Georges de la Tour. In his canvases he adopted the strong light and shade contrasts characteristics of Caravaggio's school, although in his chiaroscuro effects he preferred the Nordic tenebrosi's use of artificial light, such as candles and torches, which produces a dazzling effect and creates a more transcendental atmosphere that does not include the supernatural. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Blind Musician]() - [Cheater with the Ace of Diamonds]() - [Christ in the Carpenter's Shop \(detail\)]() - [Christ in the Carpenter's Shop]() - [Fortune Teller]() - [Job Mocked by his Wife]() - [Magdalen of Night Light]() - [Peasant Couple Eating]() - [Penitent St Jerome]() - [Saint Jerome Reading]() - [St Jerome]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()