Study for "Autopsy at the Hôtel-Dieu", 1876

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 53.3 x 43.2 cm (21 x 17 in.)

framed: 70.49 x 60.33 x 4.76 cm (27 3/4 x 23 3/4 x 1 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Knoxville Academy of Medicine, Knoxville, Tennessee

Accession Number

2006.158.1

Artists / Makers

Henri Gervex (painter) French, 1852 - 1929

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in red, underlined by the artist: H. Gervex

Provenance

Acquired c. 1950 in Italy by Dr. P. Herbert Acuff [d. 1951], Knoxville;[1] purchased from his estate by Dr. E. Charles Sienknecht, Dr. B.M. Overholt, and Dr. J. Gilbert Eblen, all of Knoxville, and donated 1957 to the Knoxville Academy of Medicine; gift 2006 to NGA.

[1] The provenance information was supplied by Dr. John M. Burkhart, representing the Knoxville Academy of Medicine, in a letter of 30 November 2006 to Florence Coman, and a memorandum of 3 December 1989 from the Academy records (letter and copy of the memorandum in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Knoxville Academy of Medicine

Bibliography

2015: Hunter, Mary. "Intern, Orderly, Artist, Corpse: Emerging Masculinities in Henri Gervex's Autopsy at Hôtel-Dieu." Oxford Art Journal 38, no. 3 (2015): 413-415, fig. 5.