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Description: | Among the scenes from everyday life popular in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, the professions of medicine and dentistry were often lampooned. In this scene an upper class gentleman is having blood taken from his arm. Bloodletting was a popular medical practice from antiquity up to the late nineteenth century. It involved the withdrawal of often considerable quantities of blood from the patient in the belief that this would cure or prevent a great many illnesses and diseases. However, in this painting, the surgeon is shown taking blood from an artery rather than a vein. The painting is by a French artist of the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. | Subjects: | figure; interior; townscape; still life; everyday life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: French School Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8328... | Go to resource |
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