Young Woman with a Lighted Candle at a Window

Like his father, Gerrit Dou became an artist and worked as a printmaker between 1625 and 1627, the years when he is recorded in the artists’ guild of his native city. One year later in 1628 he entered the studio of the young Rembrandt in Leiden where he spent three years as an apprentice. By the time of Rembrandt’s move to Amsterdam, Dou was an independent master. He developed a painstaking, highl…