# Visiting the Sick

- By: Michael Sweerts (Brussels, 1618–1664)
- Date: c. 1646 - c. 1649
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 75 cm x width 99 cm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Commissie voor Fotoverkoop
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-2848--ba4d462af80c9febbde24e53af1c51f5)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/mygdE/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.