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Mattheus van Helmont: A savant in his cabinet, surrounded by chemical and other apparatus, examining a flask.  wikidata:Q124024703 reasonator:Q124024703
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Mattheus van Helmont  (1623–after 1679
date QS:P,+1679–00–00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1679–00–00T00:00:00Z/9
)  wikidata:Q10730195
 
Mattheus van Helmont
Alternative names
Mattheus van Hellemont, Matheus van Helmont
Description Flemish painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 24 July 1623 (baptised) after 1679
date QS:P,+1679-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1679-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Location of birth/death Antwerp City of Brussels
Work period from 1645 until 1679
date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1645-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1679-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Antwerp (1645-1674), City of Brussels (1674-1679)
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artist QS:P170,Q10730195
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Title
A savant in his cabinet, surrounded by chemical and other apparatus, examining a flask.
label QS:Len,"A savant in his cabinet, surrounded by chemical and other apparatus, examining a flask."
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description

A savant in his cabinet, surrounded by chemical and other apparatus, examining a flask. Oil painting by Mattheus van Helmont, 167-.

All around the room is scattered a vast quantity of chemical and pharmaceutical apparatus: earthenware vessels, glass vessels, books, pestles and mortars, herbs in bags or hanging in bunches from the ceiling; also naturalia such as a stuffed fish, the skull of a stag, bladders of animals. On the table to right, a statuette of Laocoön (without his sons); on side of furnace, left, a framed painting of two fools wearing foolscaps.

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Keywords: Mattheus van Helmont; 45123i; Vessels; Philosophers; Alchemy; Alchemists
Medium oil
medium QS:P186,Q296955
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