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Title |
An Alchemist's Laboratory |
Object Name |
Painting |
Object ID |
FA 2000.003.015 |
Description |
A gaily-dressed alchemist in a sash and feathered cap holds up a glass vial to the viewer, smiling broadly. Other glass bottles, vials, and earthenware jars sit on the table at his side and the shelf on the rear wall. Though the workroom is humble, the alchemist's fine clothes suggest his work may have been successful- or else that he is a flashy fraud. |
Artist |
Hals, Harmen |
Date |
1600s |
Dimensions |
H-17.5 W-15.25 inches |
Material |
Oil Paint on Canvas |
Medium |
Painting |
Collection |
Eddleman Collection |
Digital Collections Link |
0.000 |
Search Terms |
Alchemy Alchemists Painting Portraits Workshops Seventeenth century Hals, Harmen |
Provenance |
Spectrum Laboratories, Rancho Dominguez CA. Christie's South Kensington, Dec. 8, 1988, Nr. 66, pg. 27.(As Jan Miense Molenaer) Parke-Bertnet, New York 25.3.1964 lot 16(a) as Harmen Hals (Private Collection, New York) Parke-Bernet, New York 29.11.1961 lot 15 (John Lek Collection, New York) as Harmen Hals. Douwes Brother, June 1939 Exinger, Cologne, May 1928 (for v?) |