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An assistant prepares a plaster at the table while the doctor treats a patient’s foot. This composition is derived from works by Adriaen Brouwer, who had a profound influence on Teniers. Teniers made several variations on the theme, which were often imitated by his contemporaries and later artists. There was a tradition in Flemish painting of ridiculing quack doctors and their practices, and this may be the case here. It is possible, for example, that the open-mouthed fish hanging from the ceiling suggests gullibility. Although the composition is strongly reminiscent of Teniers’s work and it is signed (bottom left), it is too poorly executed to be by him. The signature is probably false, and the painting made by an imitator after Teniers’s death.
Title
A Doctor tending a Patient's Foot in his Surgery
Date
17th century
Medium
Oil on oak
Measurements
H 39 x W 61.1 cm
Accession number
NG2599
Acquisition method
Salting Bequest, 1910
Work type
Painting
