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Description: | Paintings on alchemical themes were popular in seventeenth-century Flemish and Dutch art. It is not known who initiated this interest but both Teniers and Ryckaert took up the theme in earnest around 1648. The alchemist theme is used as an illustration of human folly involving futile searches. This painting is based on a work by the seventeenth-century Flemish artist David Ryckaert III but is not an exact copy. I | Subjects: | figure; interior; still life; everyday life; allegory (folly) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Ryckaert, David, III (Flemish painter, 1612-1661) Æ After Previously attributed to Ryckaert, David, III (Flemish painter, 1612-1661) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8327... | Go to resource |
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