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Description: | Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), a lay doctor, invented Mesmerism and the use of Mesmeric therapy. He believed his own body held some sort of magnetic force and that he helped to release a kind of psychic ether in his patient's body. He constructed a large tub (the 'baquet') from which magnetised fluid was dispensed to patients through pipes and ropes applied to the diseased parts. On the far left can be seen someone winding a magnetised rope around his head to cure a headache. On the right, Mesmer is touching a friar with a wand. This work was thought to be by a French eighteenth-century painter but it may be Austrian. | Subjects: | Franz Anton); interior; landscape figure; portrait (Mesmer | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown Æ Previously attributed to French School | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8334... | Go to resource |
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