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Description: | A surgeon who is holding an extracted tooth is standing next to a figure sitting at a table and who is holding his finger to his mouth to demonstrate that he has just had his tooth extracted. On the table in front of the surgeon is a lancet case and lid. The work is a copy of a painting by Gerrit Dou of 1672 - an artist who painted a number of works depicting surgeons extracting teeth from their patient. The paper and other objects jutting over the ledge into the viewer's space was a device first used in the Renaissance and again common in Dou's work. There is a date inscribed on the cloth of 1672. | Subjects: | figure; interior; still life; everyday life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Dou, Gerrit (Dutch painter and draftsman, 1613-1675) Æ After | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8338... | Go to resource |
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