Eight women representing the conditions of dementia, megalomania, acute mania, melancholia, idiocy, hallucination, erotic mania and paralysis, in the gardens of the Salpêtrière hospital, Paris. Lithograph by A. Gautier, 1857.

  • Gautier, Amand-Désiré, 1825-1894.
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[1857]
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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1857] ([Paris] (r. Cadet, 11) : Imp. Bertauts)

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1 print : lithograph ; image 18.6 x 27.7 cm

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Folles de la Salpétrière. (Cour des agitées.) Amand Gautier, pinx et lith. Salon de 1857. Bears number: 173 Bears blind stamp in lower border: Les artistes anciens et modernes

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Jane E. Kromm, "The feminization of madness in visual representation", Feminist studies, 1994, vol. 20, pp. 507-535 (reproduced p. 522)

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Wellcome Collection 20059i

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