A physician, a woman patient and an alchemist (?). Oil painting attributed to Jan Josef Horemans I.

  • Horemans, Jan Josef, 1682-1759.
Date:
[between 1720 and 1729?]
Reference:
44719i
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Description

In the laboratory of an apothecary, alchemist, or medical practitioner, a woman has her pulse taken by a standing man and her urine read by a man seated at a table. The standing man, perhaps a physician (though a physician would be out of context in these surroundings), wears a wig and a brown coat, and bears some resemblance to the Dutch physician Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738). The seated man wears an old-fashioned ruff of the kind worn in the first half of the seventeenth century. In the foreground, academic books, medicine jars, and distilling apparatus

Publication/Creation

[between 1720 and 1729?]

Physical description

1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 31 x 38 cm

Creator/production credits

Apparently an early 18th-century picture. Possibly painted by Egbert van Heemskerck

Reference

Wellcome Collection 44719i

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