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Description: | An operator is extracting 'pierres de tête' from behind a man's ear. In scenes from everyday life popular in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, the profession of medicine was often lampooned. In these, the doctor is often depicted as a deceiving charlatan, marketing his products with impressive but unsubstantiated claims about their effectiveness. The figure types are characteristic of the work Pieter Jansz. Quast but is not of high enough quality to be by his hand. | Subjects: | interior; figure; everyday life; allegory (folly) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Quast, Pieter Jansz. (Dutch painter, engraver, and draftsman, 1605 or 1606-1647) Æ Attributed to after | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8334... | Go to resource |
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