THOMAS WIJCK (BEVERWIJCK C. 1616-1677 HAARLEM)
THOMAS WIJCK (BEVERWIJCK C. 1616-1677 HAARLEM)
THOMAS WIJCK (BEVERWIJCK C. 1616-1677 HAARLEM)
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THOMAS WIJCK (BEVERWIJCK C. 1616-1677 HAARLEM)

An alchemist in his study with two assistants in the background

细节
THOMAS WIJCK (BEVERWIJCK C. 1616-1677 HAARLEM)
An alchemist in his study with two assistants in the background
signed 'TWyck' ('TW' linked, on the tablecloth, lower center, strengthened)
oil on panel
16 1⁄8 x 14 5⁄8 in. (41 x 37.2 cm.)
来源
Private collection, France.
Anonymous sale; Druout Rive Gauche, Paris, 21 March 1980, lot 57.
with Johnny van Haeften, Ltd., by March 1989.
with Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, by 1989 until at least 1996.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 28 January 1999, lot 421A, where acquired by the present owner.
出版
Advertisement, The Burlington Magazine, March 1989, p. xxxiii, illustrated.
展览
Vienna, Galerie Sanct Lucas, Gemälde Alter Meister Winter, 1989-1990, no. 7.
Vienna, Galerie Sanct Lucas, Old Master Paintings, Winter 1996, no. 16.

荣誉呈献

Laura H. Mathis
Laura H. Mathis VP, Specialist, Head of Sale

拍品专文

The practice of alchemy, a blend of philosophy, magic, chemistry, and astrology, flourished in Early Modern Europe. Its practitioners famously sought the secret to transform lead into gold and to discover the elixir of life. Elias Ashmole, Tycho Brahe and Issac Newton all published alchemical texts in addition to their early scientific discoveries. Thomas Wijck favored the subject of the alchemist’s study and painted it on numerous occasions. The glass alembic perched atop a furnace in the foreground, the piles of texts, and the exotic reptile hanging from the ceiling are all common symbols of the alchemist’s trade and appear in many of Wijck’s compositions, including examples at The Menil Collection, Houston (inv. no. 1967-31), The Mauritshuis, The Hague (inv. no. 469) and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. no. SK-A-489).

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