Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus

The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus
Voting period ends on 19 Nov 2018  at 15:01:49 (UTC)
 * Reason:High quality reproduction of a painting with its own article and significant impact elsewhere.
 * Articles in which this image appears:The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus, Philosopher's stone, History of pseudoscience, etc.
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
 * Creator:Joseph Wright of Derby


 * Support as nominator – MER-C 15:01, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Question Looking at other versions online, this one looks too dark. Have you seen the picture in real life? 09:29, 11 November 2018 (UTC) Charlesjsharp (talk) 18:51, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
 * No, but I found this photograph of the painting as it is displayed (bottom right), which would suggest the painting is darker than some direct photographs on the web. The artist is famous for chiaroscuro, so some darkness is expected. MER-C 20:29, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I think yours is darker than the one you signpost. Charlesjsharp (talk) 15:33, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I no longer live near Derby but I am very familiar with this painting and it is dark, dark and dark again hence the dramatic effect of the lit faces (chiaroscuro indeed and a master - if the photo doesn't show this it has failed).Look at his other paintings, once he got the trick he kept it.The museum lecture photo doesn't help.It looks overlit. Wright himself would, I am sure, have chosen this present version. Subjective support from me then. Notafly (talk) 20:08, 17 November 2018 (UTC) Ps.

--Armbrust The Homunculus 16:13, 19 November 2018 (UTC)