Le Docteur Alchimiste (The Alchemical Doctor)

2025-07-09T10:53:16-04:00

This engraving by J. Tardieu reproduces a painting of the same subject by David Teniers II. An older man with a lined, wizened face sits in a chair before a table, intently reading an open book. Before him sits a globe, hourglass and a human skull, reminders of both worldly knowledge and the passage of time. Other texts rest nearby. In the background, three men converse in the workshop, beneath a shelf of glassware and stoppered flasks.