The Alchemist

• 17th century
• Mattheus van Helmont, Flemish
• 23 x 33 in.
  Oil on canvas
• Not on display
• Gift of Fisher Scientific International
• Fisher Collection
• FA 2000.001.277
• No known copyright restrictions

Description

In the center a bearded, seated alchemist looks up slightly to the right at a flask. On the table are books, a celestial globe, glassware, and an écorchee model showing musculature. A young assistant works the bellows to a small furnace in the bottom left. Above the alchemist, leaves are blowing in from an open window. In the right background are five workers near a hearth.