A Late 18th Century? Dutch School? oil on metal panel painting depicting an interior genre scene. The composition features a physician? or alchemist? wearing a red cap and a dark doublet with slashed sleeves, holding a glass matula? vessel aloft for inspection. Beside him, a woman in a headscarf looks upward. The setting includes a shelf with a human skull and glass apothecary bottles, partially obscured by a draped green curtain, elements characteristic of the Dutch genre tradition. The painting is executed on a dark metal panel, likely copper?, which shows signs of oxidation on the reverse. The support is secured into a wide, multi-moulded wooden frame with a cream-coloured painted finish using four hand-wrought nails. A simple metal ring hanger is fixed to the reverse of the frame.
Width: 16 cm
Width: 11.5 cm (sight).
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