Sujet

A toothdrawer concealing the key from the patient. Creator: Luciano Nezzo.

Légende

A toothdrawer concealing the key from the patient. The painting shows a surgical operator approaching a young woman in order to extract a tooth. One of the themes of the painting is the contrast between the two figures: he is old, she is young; his clothes are drab and scruffy, hers are colourful and neat; he is dirty and unshaven, she is well-scrubbed. At the centre of the composition, her clean pink hand is juxtaposed to his mottled grey hand, his grimy fingernails to her clear-skinned neck. She is trustingly exposing her person, he is deceptively hiding behind his back the instrument of his imminent assault.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A24_235

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

51,8Mo (1,9Mo) / 30,9cm x 42,0cm / 3648 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Italy Italian people male looking job man men medical health medicine historical arts painting country figure figures science art guy occupation museum color hiding scene contrast depiction location century gesturing profession key artwork dentist concept concealing hand gesture oil Painting Colour Dental Health toothache 19th century Looking At Each Other nineteenth century culture history historic oil Painting Heritage Art 19th-century Wellcome Collection Luciano Nezzo Nezzo Luciano