Alchemist Filling Wet Drug Jars

• 17th century
• Italian School
• 19.25 x 25.5 in.
  Oil on canvas
• On display in Transmutations
• Gift of Fisher Scientific International
• Fisher Collection
• FA 2000.001.282
• No known copyright restrictions

Description

A man, surrounded by copper bowls, blue vessels, a bag, and a container of endive plants, pours liquid from a jar into a blue vessel. At the far right a bowl of vegetables sits on a barrel, next to a furnace with distillation apparatus. In the left background is the shadowed figure of another man.