Who painted Italian Marketplace with a Quack Dentist?

Italian Marketplace with a Quack Dentist was painted by Johannes Lingelbach in 1651.

Where can I see Italian Marketplace with a Quack Dentist?

Italian Marketplace with a Quack Dentist is held by Rijksmuseum.

What movement is Italian Marketplace with a Quack Dentist?

Italian Marketplace with a Quack Dentist is associated with Dutch Golden Age.

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Museum-quality prints of Italian Marketplace with a Quack Dentist are available made-to-order from Artifact World Gallery.

Artwork

Italian Marketplace with a Quack Dentist

Johannes Lingelbach , 1651

Italian Marketplace with a Quack Dentist is an oil painting by the Dutch Golden Age artist Johannes Lingelbach. It dates from 1651 and is held in the collection of the Rijksmuseum.

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Technique & Style

Created in 1651, Italian Marketplace with a Quack Dentist is executed in oil paint on a canvas support.

Created in 1651, Italian Marketplace with a Quack Dentist is executed in oil paint on a canvas support. The work measures 68.5 cm in height and 86 cm in width, presenting a landscape genre scene. As a product of the Dutch Golden Age, the painting reflects the artist's engagement with Italianate settings through the application of oil on canvas, a standard medium for such compositions of the period.

History & Provenance

Johannes Lingelbach painted Italian Marketplace with a Quack Dentist in 1651, an oil on canvas work measuring 68.5 cm by 86 cm. The painting entered the collection of Josephus Augustinus Brentano and Leendert Dupper before being acquired by the Rijksmuseum, where it remains today. Its provenance traces a continuous ownership chain from the artist to these early collectors and onward to the museum.

The painting is held in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. It was acquired from Josephus Augustinus Brentano and Leendert Dupper, who are listed as its former owners. The work was created in 1651 by Johannes Lingelbach using oil on canvas and measures 68.5 cm in height by 86 cm in width.

Overview

Johannes Lingelbach’s Italian Marketplace with a Quack Dentist (1651) depicts a bustling open‑air market in an Italian town. The composition is crowded with figures engaged in ordinary commerce, while a central column lies broken, and a street‑side practitioner appears to extract a tooth. The scene is rendered in oil on canvas and exemplifies the genre‑scene tradition of the Dutch Golden Age.

Subject & Meaning

The painting captures a slice of everyday life, juxtaposing routine market activity with an unusual medical spectacle. Vendors sell goods beneath a tent, laborers unload a stone‑laden cart, and townspeople mingle, while a figure performing a tooth‑pulling procedure draws attention to the informal, sometimes dubious, health practices common in public squares of the period.

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Artist

Johannes Lingelbach

Johannes (or Johann) Lingelbach (1622 – 3 November 1674) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, associated with the second generation of Bambocciate, a group of genre painters working in Rome from 1625–1700.