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Watercolour of a rustic kitchen with a large fireplace and grotesque creatures with animal features among hanging pots and furnishings.

Kitchen Interior with Hallucinatory Beings, Watercolour by Auguste Laurent, 1844

A watercolour of a timber-beamed room with a large hooded fireplace where a fire burns beneath hanging pots and a pan. Strange, grotesque figures with animal and human features populate the scene, including a seated figure at a bench, a cook at the hearth, and a small dog in the foreground.

Artist
Auguste Laurent
Date
1844
Medium
Watercolors Drawings
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 3272 px
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Public domain · Licensed CC BY 4.0 (Wellcome Collection) by Wellcome Collection; credit required.
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)