Barber Extracting a Tooth

Barber Extracting a Tooth is an oil-on-panel genre painting by Adriaen van Ostade, dated ca. 1630–1635, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.^[1]

Barber Extracting a Tooth
Artist	Adriaen van Ostade
Year	1630–1635
Medium	oil on panel
Dimensions	34 cm × 41.3 cm (13 in × 16.3 in)
Location	Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

It shows a village barber surgeon pulling out a villager's tooth. Typically for the artist, the scene is illuminated from a window on the left,^[2] whilst the right remains in shadow.^[3] A set of scissors on the wall refers to the man's trade as a barber.