The country doctor near the patient. A painting entitled the country doctor near the sick man was exhibited by the artist in paris at the salon of 1827 (number 544 in the booklet). Acquired by the society of friends of the arts of paris, it was presented at their exhibition in 1828. A critic gives the following comment:
"mr. Haudebourt-lescot saw a country doctor dining with appetite. Struck with his budded face, he sketched it on the canvas, and to teach us that he is a doctor he put a patient with his weeping wife. The result was that, the reflection not having combined the composition, the doctor's face was true and the whole thing absurd. Because, ultimately, a doctor arriving at a patient does not begin not by sitting down at the table, and it is not by eating a hot piece that he can feel his pulse. And what a sick man he is as well as the doctor. "
("society of friends of the arts. Exhibition of paintings from the year 1828, at the louvre", le mercure de france au dix-neuvième siècle, volume 25, 1829, p. 122-126, here p. 125. Object Type: painting. Date: circa 1827. Dimensions: height: 55.8 cm (22 in); width: 45.7 cm (18 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot - Le médecin de campagne près du malade 2
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