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The Doctor’s Visit
Also titled Het doktersbezoek
Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh (Groningen (stad), 1729–1781)
1750 - 1760
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 8 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
While a doctor takes the young woman’s pulse under her mother’s watchful eye, the playing boy gives away the true nature of her ailment. It is lovesickness, caused by Cupid, god of love, who shoots arrows into people’s hearts. Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh from Groningen garnered much admiration for her meticulously painted daily life scenes. In this, she chose her own path, because her teacher – her father – specialized in portraits and interior scenes.
