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The entire collection of the Mauritshuis is available to download in high resolution.
For publications, please use a creditline, including 'Mauritshuis, The Hague'. More information.
Télécharger l'image
The entire collection of the Mauritshuis is available to download in high resolution.
For publications, please use a creditline, including 'Mauritshuis, The Hague'. More information.
Télécharger l'image
The entire collection of the Mauritshuis is available to download in high resolution.
For publications, please use a creditline, including 'Mauritshuis, The Hague'. More information.
David Teniers the Younger
The Alchemist
This is the domain of an alchemist; a scientist who is trying to make gold. He is stirring something in a bowl, while holding a reference book. The space is filled with strange kettles, stoves and glassware. The alchemist was a popular theme in Flemish painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. He symbolises the man who squanders his money on futile, trivial matters and is therefore reduced to beggary.
