An apothecary with pharmaceutical equipment seated in an arched window. Etching by B.A. Dunker after G. Metsu.

  • Metsu, Gabriel, 1629-1667.
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36123i
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Description

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

Publication/Creation

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Physical description

1 print : etching

Contributors

Lettering

G. Metsu pinx. B.A. Dunker f.

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 36123i

Reproduction note

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

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