M0006851: A physician taking a woman's pulse

Previous title, replaced May 2020: 'The sick lady' (The physician's visit).

Photograph of an oil painting by Jan Steen, depicting a physician taking a woman's pulse, 1651. This reproduction was made during the VI International Congress for the History of Medicine held in Leiden 1927 at the Exposition d'art Medico-Historique and is described as Tableaux [Painting] 31, La dame malade, in the exhibition catalogue. The original painting is held by the Rijks Museum, Amsterdam.

1 May 1940

3 photographs sheet film negative, photographic print; range in size from 12.5 x 10 to 17.5 x 12.5 cm

A copy of the exhibition catalogue has been digitised by the National library of the Netherlands Catalogue d'une collection d'art medico-historique.

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.