The French Baroque painter Georges de La Tour (1593–1652) had something in common with his contemporary Caravaggio: both were fascinated by deep contrasts of light and shadow. But unlike Caravaggio, La Tour was only moderately successful during his lifetime. In 1623, he entered the service of the Dukes of Lorraine, and in 1639, Louis XIII appointed him “First Painter to the King.” Yet after he died in 1652, due to an epidemic that swept through the township of Lunéville, the artist was forgotten. This exhibition explores La Tour’s pioneering use of chiaroscuro in noctural scenes—glowing nights of the soul illuminated, intimately, by candlelight only. —Elena Clavarino