Object Record
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Metadata
Title |
La Consultation Apprehendee |
Object Name |
Engraving |
Object ID |
FA 2000.001.113 |
Description |
This print, engraved by Jean Jacques Leveau after a painting by Marie-Marc Bilcoq, shows a bearded alchemist examining a flask in the warm light of an unseen window. In a humble chamber behind a wooden doorframe, we see two women waiting for the alchemist's diagnosis. He is likely performing uroscopy, the examination of urine for the diagnosis of disease. The alchemist's young assistant holds a piece of glassware from a nearby distillation apparatus, surrounded by books, papers, and flasks. |
Artist |
Leveau, Jean Jacques |
Artist 2 |
Bilcoq, Louis-Marc-Antonie |
Date |
ca. mid-1700s |
Dimensions |
H-11.375 W-14.5 inches |
Material |
Paper, Ink |
Medium |
Engraving |
Collection |
Fisher Collection |
Search Terms |
Physicians Urinoscopy Alchemy in art Engravings Portraits Alchemists Laboratories Leveau, Jean Jacques Bilcoq, Marie-Marc-Antoine, 1755-1838 Eighteenth century |
Provenance |
Fisher Scientific, Pittsburg, PA; Fisher Scientific International Inc., Hampton, NH, until 2000. The Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2000 (from Scientific International Inc.). |