The Toothpuller (Q20077289)

Label from: English (en)

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genre: genre art (Q1047337)
artist: Pietro Longhi (Q447058)
collection: Pinacoteca di Brera (Q150066)
location: Pinacoteca di Brera (Q150066)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
depicts: dentist (Q27349)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)

catalog URL: https://pinacotecabrera.org/en/collezione-online/opere/il-cavadenti/

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description: Longhi illustrates daily life in the Venice of his day, adopting a form of genre painting that reveals his acute observation of contemporary society, its habits andĀ its surroundings. His art focuses on all classes of society as we can see in the Tooth Puller, in which aristocrats and plebeians alike display an interest in events in the city. The painting is signed beneath the stool.

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