In the same fashion, in de la Tour's Madeleine at the Mirror, shadow and light face each other, dividing and unifying a face and its reflection, a skull and its image, waking and silence; and in The Image of Saint Alexis, the pageboy with the torch uncovers in the shadow of the vault the body of the man who was his master, a luminous, serious young man discovering the misery of men, a child bringing light to death.