A Scientist Seated at a Desk by Candlelight

1755 · Anna Dorothea Therbusch (German, 1721/22–1782)

oil on canvas

Cleveland Museum of Art · European Painting and Sculpture · CC0 · The Cleveland Museum of Art

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