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Originally Posted by Peter
Her face (the lighter parts of the skin in general) is much too light en the little fire is too dark to make this a really convincing candle-light scene. It appears to me that her face (the lighted object) is lighter than the light-source itself, which is impossible in reality.
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I may have mentioned this before, but when I was at the Rembrandt exhibit last year, I noticed, in one painting, that there was a fire that emitted no light at all. It may have been there as symbolism, but the Great One did not feel bound by the laws of physics. He put the light where he deemed best. The light seemed to come from the figures themselves (of course, this was the Holy Family, but the effect read as very realistic, and it was an excellent compositional device).