# Hunting by Candlelight [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BOTH, Andries]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 34,5 x 27 cm ## Commentary This is the earliest dated work of the artist, painted before he went to Italy. A ludicrous scene showing a peasant engrossed in the business of removing fleas from the body of a man kneeling half clothed in front of him. A third peasant holds a candle to illuminate the operation while a fourth watches with close attention. This picture of peasant 'hunting' is just as successful as the artist's Romantic, Baroque scenes of the hunting parties of the aristocracy. ## Related artworks - [The Poor Painter in His Studio]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()