Aegros curare (Tend the Sick), from the series The Seven Works of Mercy
Sebastien Bourdon, French, 1616 - 1671
1671
Etching and engraving on wove paper
Overall: 17 3/16 × 23 in. (43.7 × 58.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.971.6.5
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, lower center: V Aegros curare 2. Sam. 17; lower right: Sebastianus Bourdon Monpeliensis; further inscriptions in Latin and French
Course History
ANTH 17, The Anthropology of Health and Illness, Sienna Craig, Spring 2012
ANTH 50, COCO 2, HIV/AIDS Through a Biosocial Lens: 30 Years of a Modern Plague, Sienna Craig, Timothy Lahey, Spring 2013
REL 53, Religion, Healing and Medicine, Elizabeth Perez, Winter 2012
ANTH 17, The Anthropology of Health and Illness, Sienna Craig, Spring 2012
ANTH 17, The Anthropology of Health and Illness, Sienna Craig, Spring 2012
COCO 2.3, ANTH 50.6, HIV/AIDS Through a Bio-social Lens: Thirty Years of a Modern Plague, Sienna Craig, Timothy Lahey, Spring 2015
ANTH 64, The Evolution of Pregnancy, Zaneta Thayer, Spring 2019
Provenance
David Tunick, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1971.
Catalogue Raisonne
Robert-Dumesnil, Vol. XI, p. 19, no. 6
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