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The Tooth Puller

Technical Details
  • Title
    The Tooth Puller
  • Author
    Pietro Longhi
  • Year
    1746 - 52
  • Dimensions
    cm 50 x 62
  • Inventory
    2085
  • Room
    XXXV
  • Signature
    Pietro Longhi

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 and 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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