Object Record
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Metadata
Title |
The Alchemist |
Object Name |
Painting |
Object ID |
FA 2000.003.001 |
Description |
A man dressed in a peasant's clothing holds a gold scale in right hand and reaches with left for red substance in open paper packet. At left through window are building roofs; the light illuminates a dark, cluttered workshop containing two furnaces, mortar and pestle, and other distillation apparatus. |
Artist |
After Bega, Cornelis Pietersz. |
Date |
1800s |
Dimensions |
H-16.25 W-15 inches |
Material |
Oil Paint, Canvas |
Medium |
Painting |
Collection |
Eddleman Collection |
Search Terms |
Alchemists Alchemy Distillation apparatus Apothecaries Distillation Earthenware Flask Jars Mortars Nineteenth century Painting Pestles Philosopher's Stone Prints Scales |
Provenance |
John Sheepshanks (1787-1863); by descent to Charles Sheepshanks (probably Charles Edward William Sheepshanks, 1911-1991); (sale, Christie's, London, 27 July 1969, lot. 84 (to Bader)). Alfred Bader, Milwaukee, 1969-1995 (to Roy Eddleman for Spectrum). Spectrum Laboratories, California, 1995-2000. The Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2000 (from Spectrum and Roy Eddleman). |