Rijksmuseum
A Barbershop
Adriaen van Ostade- Date
- 1673
- Medium
- paper, deck paint, watercolor (paint)
- Institution
- Rijksmuseum
A hairdresser is lathering a customer’s chin, before shaving him. The man is holding a bowl himself, to catch the soap and hair. At the back of the shop, the barber – both surgeon and haircutter – is binding a patient’s shin, helped by an assistant. The shop is decorated with the mysterious implements of the barber’s trade: bottles and pots, a distiller’s flask and a mounted fish.
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