Two men, one cutting his finger-nails with a pair of scissors. Oil painting.
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- 45059i
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Both men in the painting are bald; the one on the right is pointing in fun to the other's bald head whilst he is having his finger nails cut by the man on the left
Physical description
1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 57 x 71 cm
Reference
Wellcome Collection 45059i
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Formerly attributed to Jusepe de Ribera. It has been proposed (by Dawson Carr, National Gallery, London, 2007) as a Neapolitan work from ca.1680 or a copy of such a work. At Christ Church, Oxford, there is a painting of two men with goitres which has a similar arrangement of the two heads
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