Chirurgie


Teniers, The village surgeon

P1050963
 

 

"The country surgeon".

Colored print of an engraving, done in 1747 after a painting by the Flemish painter David TENIERS the Younger (1610-1690) by Thomas Major (1720-1799). Treatment room of a surgeon, animals stuffed on the walls and alive, ointment pots and instruments, on a stool a man whose foot is treated. In the foreground surgical instruments of that time: Pelikan, Zahnzange, lever ...

 

One can argue whether more surgeons or more pedicurists - the last term earliest occupied for the year 1762 "Rousselot, chirurgien de Mgr le Dauphin, the Princes et de Mesdames, en cette partie, ancien chirurgien de M. le prince de Wirtemberg, toilet of the pied, ou traité de la guérison des cors, verrues et autres maladies de la peau, 1762 ".

 

 

About David TENIERS

TENIERS received his master's degree in 1633 and was admitted to the Luke Guild of the City of Antwerp, where painters as well as surgeons were incorporated - hence free access to the workplaces of his colleagues. 1645/46 he held the post of Dean of the Luke Guild. Among other things, TENIERS created peasant picnic scenes with drinkers, smokers and card players, as well as motifs such as folk festivals, soldiers' parlors, surgeons, bathers, alchemists' and witches' kitchens - a total of 800 works have been preserved. Among his patrons we find the Austrian governor (1746-1756) in Brussels, Archduke Leopold Wilhelm (1614-1662), youngest son of Emperor Ferdinand II and founder of the collection of paintings of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. TENIERS portrayed him in 1651 in the middle of his collection of paintings in the Palais de Bruxelles (now Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna). For the medical historian, the interest of the Archduke (as well as his brother, Emperor Friedrich III) to alchemy or gold making is worth mentioning. In 1656 he set up a laboratory "above the Ballhaus" in Vienna.

 

47x32.5 cm large picture, gift of a patient.