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The Surgeon by Jan Sanders van Hemessen, 1550-1555
Oil painting, 100 cm x 141 cm, School: Flemish, Theme: Gender and Society
On display at the Prado museum, Madrid, Spain
A surgeon extracts a stone from a patient’s head. The scene takes place in an urban setting, probably a market. An aged helper holds the patient’s head, along with a youth, who prepares the unguents. Meanwhile, another patient grimaces grotesquely while waiting his turn. Hemessen criticizes the defrauding of patients by depicting the doctor with a sarcastic expression that reveals him as an impostor whose only interest is money.
