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Italian Marketplace with a Quack Dentist
Also titled Italiaans marktplein met kiezentrekker
Johannes Lingelbach (Frankfurt am Main, 1622–1674)
1651
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 68.5 cm x width 86 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Dupper Wzn. Bequest, Dordrecht
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Lingelbach made sketches from life in Rome, from which he composed this imaginary marketplace after he returned to Amsterdam. The figures take no interest in the antique ruins; their attention is absorbed by the tooth-puller at the left, who treats his victim while on horseback. In the centre, two men play morra (which involves them guessing how many fingers their opponent will hold up). At right is a ciambellaro selling pretzels and other refreshments.
