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Description: | Signed: yes Description: A medical practitioner is shown examining a urine flask. The examining of urine to obtain a diagnosis of a medical condition is the ancient art of uroscopy. This work is based on a painting known as The Village Doctor by David Teniers, the Younger, in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels. It is possible that it is by T. Cornelis de Bie, a painter who lived in Amsterdam from 1621/1622 to 1664 but who is best known as the author of Gulden Cabinet, a series of biographies and panegyrics on artists, sculptors and architects of the South Netherlandish schools of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is signed C. Debie. | Subjects: | figure; everyday life; still life; interior | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Teniers, David, II (Flemish painter, 1610-1690) Æ After Attributed to Bie, Cornelius de (Dutch artist, active 1621/2 - 1664) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8336... | Go to resource |
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