Allegorical representation of the physician as God. Interior view with three scenes: patient in bed being treated by surgeon, nurse, and an assistant; woman drying bandages(?) at a fireplace; another bedside scene. Praying is a prominent motif.
1 drawing : black chalk heightened with white gouache ; sheet 62.5 x 47.8 cm
Lettering
Chasselat L'an 8. De son art bienfaisant il agrandit la sphère. Esculape conduit sa main, Minerve sa pensée. Il réunit enfin L'art de guérir et l'art de plaire.…
Medium: Red chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions: 6 x 4 7/16in. (15.3 x 11.3cm)
Annotated on paper support on verso, in blue crayon, "It5 [or s] - A13" along upper left border; below, "Moretto da Brescia"; at center, in graphite,…
lettering: At the signe of the tare live's one Mr Grenier who makes all sorts of good rasors, lancets, sisers very well and all other sorts of instruments for chirugeons ; H. Neutte [?] f. A.o 1698