Visiting the Sick
Also titled De zieken bezoeken
Michael Sweerts (Brussels, 1618–1664)
c. 1646 - c. 1649
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 75 cm x width 99 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Commissie voor Fotoverkoop
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Helpful visitors enter the home of a poor family to minister to the sick. Seated next to a bed, a doctor points his finger upward, as though to say that only God holds man’s fate in his hands. Standing by the side of an old woman is a child, who gazes imploringly at the viewer.
