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Description: | By the seventeenth century the medical profession was divided between university-trained doctors and unqualified popular practioners who were often barbers as well as surgeons. The latter group became the subject of popular ridicule in seventeenth-century art. In this work the barber surgeon holds a comb whilst two other figures watch, on the right a man is holding a musical instrument. The faces of the men are highly characterised making several figures appear as caricatures. The work may be Spanish or French but is an eighteenth or nineteenth-century copy of an earlier painting. | Subjects: | figure; interior; still life; everyday life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown Æ Previously attributed to Spanish School | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8328... | Go to resource |
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