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Franz Christoph Janneck  (1703–1761)  wikidata:Q1446477
 
Franz Christoph Janneck
Description Austrian painter
Date of birth/death 3 October 1703 / 4 October 1703 Edit this at Wikidata 13 January 1761 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Graz Edit this at Wikidata Vienna
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artist QS:P170,Q1446477
Title
The Medical Alchemist
Description
Three figures are shown in a well-lit room in front of an open window. In the background is a cabinet full of glassware. Centrally, a seated alchemist in a physician's red cap with fur trim holds a flask in his right hand and leans with his left on a table and an open astrological book. The alchemist looks poorly dressed and unkempt, with balding hair and a scruffy beard. The Turkish carpet on the table is frayed. The physician holds up a urinal to inspect its contents, including the sediment that has collected at the bottom, against the light. At left in the middle ground, an older seated woman holds a walking stick, facing the alchemist. In the left foreground a man kneels, his head turned right to watch the diagnosis. He is using bellows to blow up the fire of an open free standing furnace. On top of the furnace is a distillation apparatus. A red fluid is being distilled in the retort, and a yellow distillate has collected in the receiver. A wicker basket full of charcoal is within reach of the assistant. In the right foreground on the floor are books, a mortar and pestle, apparatus, and a scroll with planetary and zodiacal symbols. At the time of painting, astrological medicine was no longer practiced by reputable physicians, so the inclusion of the astrological details suggests he is somewhat of a quack.
Date 18th century
date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Medium oil on copper
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q753,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 12.5 in (31.7 cm); width: 9 in (22.8 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,12.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,9U218593
institution QS:P195,Q5090408
Accession number
FA 2000.001.275
Exhibition history Exhibition: The Fisher Collection at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia PA, December 13, 1972 to March 4, 1973 nr. 20.
Credit line Gift of Fisher Scientific International, Science History Institute.
Notes Image downloaded with permission from the Science History Institute, as part of the Wikipedian in Residence initiative.
References Transmutations: Alchemy in Art, (2002) by Lawrence M. Principe and Lloyd DeWitt, pg. 30.
Source/Photographer https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/12579s91d
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current16:09, 1 April 2019Thumbnail for version as of 16:09, 1 April 20196,340 × 9,070 (7.59 MB)Mary Mark Ockerbloomupload a larger dpi image of the painting (colors may vary slightly)
19:48, 5 November 2013Thumbnail for version as of 19:48, 5 November 20131,063 × 1,500 (172 KB)Mary Mark Ockerbloom{{Artwork |artist = {{Creator:Franz Christoph Janneck}} |author = |title = ''The Medical Alchemist'' |description = ''The Medical Alchemist'' by Franz Christoph Graz Janneck. Three figures in a well-lit room in front of an open window. Centrally,...

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