David Teniers the Younger

The Alchemist

David Teniers de Jonge  De alchemist
David Teniers de Jonge  De alchemist
David Teniers de Jonge  De alchemist
David Teniers de Jonge  De alchemist
David Teniers de Jonge  De alchemist

David Teniers the Younger
The Alchemist

1650 No expuesto

This is the domain of an alchemist; a scientist who is trying to make gold. He is stirring something in a bowl, while holding a reference book. The space is filled with strange kettles, stoves and glassware. The alchemist was a popular theme in Flemish painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. He symbolises the man who squanders his money on futile, trivial matters and is therefore reduced to beggary.

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David Teniers de Jonge  De alchemist

David Teniers the Younger
The Alchemist

1650 No expuesto

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Información general
David Teniers the Younger (Antwerp 1610 - 1690 Brussels)
The Alchemist
1650
painting
261
Material y detalles técnicos
oil
panel
27.4 x 37.4 cm
Inscripciones
lower right: D. Teniers: Fec

Origen

Prince William IV, exhibited at Het Loo Palace, Apeldoorn; by inheritance to Prince William V, The Hague, 1754-1795; confiscated by the French, transferred to the Muséum central des arts/Musée Napoléon (Musée du Louvre), Paris, 1795-1815; Royal Picture Gallery, housed in the Prince William V Gallery, The Hague, 1816; transferred to the Mauritshuis, 1822