Sujet

A quack selling medicines. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

A quack selling medicines. The painting shows a medicine-vendor as a member of a troupe of commedia dell'arte actors, of whom three are wearing masks, while the medicine vendor and another person are not. He has a basket full of medicine bottles suspended around his neck, and holds up one of the bottles in his right hand.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A24_381

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

57,6Mo (4,0Mo) / 42,0cm x 34,4cm / 4960 x 4061 (300dpi)

Mots clés

female carrying women woman people male job man men medical health medicine mask historical arts painting playhouse entertainment figure figures science art guy theatre occupation bottles museum color scene depiction masks doctor profession artwork medicine man masked concept actors acting actor physician quack oil Painting Colour Carrying On Shoulders healer Thespian troupe showman witch doctor culture history historic Commedia dell'Arte itinerant Oil on canvas quack doctor quack medicine witch-doctor bottle Unknown Oil on canvas medicine show Painting Heritage Art Theatre Italien Wellcome Collection