SAVOYEN, Carel van
(b. ca. 1621, Antwerpen, d. 1665, Amsterdam)

Biography

Flemish painter, also known as Carlo da Savoia. In 1649 he married Catharina Wandelman and from then on lived and worked in Amsterdam. He was a student of Jan Cossiers. One of his painting portrays Jan de Doot, a blacksmith, holding in one hand a kitchen knife, and in the other a large kidney stone the size and shape of an egg. This 17th century Dutch blacksmith is said to have performed a successful lithotomy on himself in 1651. This painting is in the Anatomy Museum of the University of Leiden.



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