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Start Over You searched for: Department Museum Remove constraint Department: Museum Exhibition Things Fall Apart Remove constraint Exhibition: Things Fall Apart Subject Alchemy in art Remove constraint Subject: Alchemy in art Subject Alchemy Remove constraint Subject: Alchemy Date 1865 to 1869 Remove constraint Date: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1865">1865</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1869">1869</span>-
Surgeon operating on a man's foot
- At the Alchemist
- Circa 1820 – circa 1870
In a small workshop a medical alchemist tends to the foot of a seated patient while the man's wife and child look on. At left, an assistant grinds a substance--likely a medicine or salve--in a small mortar and pestle.…
- After Teniers, David, 1610-1690
- Subject Medicine and art, Medicine, Alchemy, Alchemy in art