A surgical operation. Oil painting by or in the style of Jan Josef Horemans I.

  • Horemans, Jan Josef, 1682-1759.
Date:
[between 1720 and 1729?]
Reference:
44993i
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A young surgeon wearing a red coat attends to a wound under the right armpit of a seated man. Could he be lancing the bubo of bubonic plague? Right, a woman holding a child by the hand geatures upwards. Left, another woman weeps and wipes her eyes with her robe

Publication/Creation

[between 1720 and 1729?]

Physical description

1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 31 x 38.5 cm

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The figure of the surgeon and the patient recur in a painting by Horemans in the Wellcome Library (catalogue no. 44992i), but the other figures are different

Reference

Wellcome Collection 44993i

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