Philosopher in Meditation by Rembrandt, 1632
The name it goes by wasn't his — someone attached it later, and the museum now prefers a slightly different one. There's apparently a long-running argument about whether he painted it at all, or a pupil did. French writers in the 1800s were mad about it, mostly because of the staircase.
Erisava: Is that window light doing all the work here?
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Everything away from the window is basically brown soup, and it still reads as a room.