An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by or after David Ryckaert III.

  • Ryckaert, David, 1612-1661.
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45121i
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Description

The figure of the alchemist shown in thought, his head cast down, his left hand holding an instrument and his right hanging down holding a pair of bellows is identical in composition to the figure in a work in the Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux, Le Havre. In the Le Havre work the alchemist is poking a fire with the instrument in his left hand

Physical description

1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 53.5 x 71 cm

Contributors

Related material

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/42/22

Lettering

David Rÿckaert

References note

Not reproduced or identifiably referred to in Bernadette van Haute, David III Ryckaert, Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, ca. 1999

Reference

Wellcome Collection 45121i

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