Sujet

A young couple visit a savant who consults ancient volumes in order to provide counselling...(1833?) Creator: Edouard Pingret.

Légende

A young couple visit a savant who consults ancient volumes in order to provide counselling to them, (1833?). On the floor to the right are two flasks containing foetuses. On a shelf above are glass vessels containing various liquids. The suggestion is that the couple are asking whether their marriage would be propitious, or, if already married, when they would have children

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A24_323

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NA

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

57,9Mo (2,6Mo) / 34,5cm x 42,0cm / 4079 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

female women woman people male looking man men historical couple arts painting figure figures art book guy museum color scene depiction century birth artwork consulting childbirth literature concept foetus sage fetus fetuses oil Painting Colour 19th century Looking At Each Other 1830s foetuses nineteenth century wise man culture history historic Oil on canvas savant Edouard Pingret Pingret Edouard Henry Theophile Oil on canvas Painting Heritage Art 19th-century Wellcome Collection