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Description: | An alchemist is shown sitting in an interior using bellows on a fire. 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 sometimes used as an illustration of human folly involving futile searches. This work is signed with the name of the French artist François-Marius Granet and is dated but its authenticity is doubted. | Subjects: | figure; interior; everyday life; still life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Granet, François-Marius (French draftsman, 1775-1849) Æ Attributed to Attributed to manner of Ostade, Adriaen van (Dutch draftsman and painter, 1610-1685) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8327... | Go to resource |
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