Object Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
The Latrochemist |
Object Name |
Painting |
Object ID |
FA 2000.001.279 |
Description |
A busy chemical workshop with a man in furred collar and physician’s cap, examines a flask, conducting a medical diagnostic or urinoscopy. He consults an open book while at right a woman and a man await results. In background are a dentist and patient, and three other workers. To far right another man with flask enters a door. Note the celestial globe and hanging reptile. |
Artist |
Bossche, Balthasar van den |
Date |
1600s-1700s |
Dimensions |
H-70.485 W-85.09 cm |
Material |
Oil Paint, Canvas |
Medium |
Painting |
Collection |
Fisher Collection |
Search Terms |
Alchemists Alchemy Distillation apparatus Apothecaries Apprentices Assistants Books Carpet Celestial Globes Copper Basin Dentistry Dentists Distillation Dog Eighteenth century Flask Furnace Iatrochemistry Jars Medicine Moor's Head Mussels Painting Reptiles Retort Seventeenth Century Tooth Pulling Urinalysis Urine Urinoscopy Vial Women Patients |
Provenance |
Fisher Scientific, Pittsburgh, PA, acquired by Chester Fisher, prior to 1965 [1]; Fisher Scientific International Inc., Hampton, NH. Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2000 (from Fisher Scientific International Inc.). Notes: [1] Chester Fisher died in 1965. |