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Vintage Pharmacy, diorama by Jean Jacques Brisson
Vintage Pharmacy, Diorama

France , 2010

Vintage Pharmacy ("Gründerzeit Apotheke"), diorama. Made by French miniaturist Jean Jacques Brisson. Diorama represents a fragment of the interior of an vintage pharmacy about end of 19th century in a glazed box with wall-hanger, integrated into an elegant wooden frame.  In the pharmacy there is a presentation cabinet (cupboard) with albarelli (jars) with inscriptions of medicinal substances, the lower part of the cabinet has nine drawers with bronze handles and inscriptions. Next to the cabinet is the pharmacist's workplace, kind of a bureau of drawers with doors and lockers. On the working surface of bureau, pharmacist's scales, mortar and pestle, prescription, pharmacy shop rounds without stoppers, and other containers with substances are placed in a businesslike disorder. 

The tooth puller, сolorized French engraving, 18th century, fragment
The tooth puller

France , 1750

The tooth puller, сolorized French engraving, presumably 18th century, accompanied by three humorous quatrains, depicts the genre scene. The quack tooth-puller looks at the spectator with a sneer, while his hand armed with an instrument is placed in the mouth of the unfortunate patient, who is trying to hold back a cry of pain. Gawkers and potential clients crowded around them, watching the action in horror, amazement and admiration.  The engraving is based on the motif of the painting The tooth puller (1620-1625) by Flemish Theodor Rombouts (1597-1637) which is in the main exhibited collection of the Museo del Prado, Madrid and is one of the outstanding examples of genre Flemish Caravaggisti.