An apothecary with instruments of his profession seated in an arched window. Lithograph by M. Vernaut after G. Metsu.

  • Metsu, Gabriel, 1629-1667.
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36102i
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Description

The man is dishevelled, wears a high hat, and holds papers. To his right there is a glass jar with whitish liquid, mortar and a suspended bottle; to the left a framed broadsheet depicts a water-doctor holding a urine-flask

Publication/Creation

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Physical description

1 print : lithograph

Contributors

Lettering

D'après Metsu. M. Vernaut Artist's names in pencil

Edition

Proof before lettering.

References note

C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, London 1908-1913, vol. 1, p. 289, Metsu no. 209

Reference

Wellcome Collection 36102i

Reproduction note

After: painting in the same direction by Metsu in the Musée du Louvre (Hofstede de Groot loc. cit.)

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