The Doctor’s Visit

Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh, 1750 - 1760

While a doctor takes the young woman’s pulse under her mother’s watchful eye, the playing boy gives away the true nature of her ailment. It is lovesickness, caused by Cupid, god of love, who shoots arrows into people’s hearts. Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh from Groningen garnered much admiration for her meticulously painted daily life scenes. In this, she chose her own path, because her teacher – her father – specialized in portraits and interior scenes.

  • Artwork typepainting
  • Object numberSK-A-3740
  • Dimensionsheight 40 cm x width 49.5 cm, depth 8 cm
  • Physical characteristicsoil on canvas

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Doctor's Visit
    • The Doctor’s Visit

  • Object type

  • Object number

    SK-A-3740

  • Description

    Het doktersbezoek. Een dokter neemt de pols van een zieke dame die in een stoel zit. Links komt een vrouw de kamer binnen gevolgd door een dienstmeid, rechts zit een oudere vrouw (de moeder?). Links op de voorgrond schiet een jongen pijlen door de hoed van de dokter. Op de achterwand hangt een schilderij met een liefdespaar.

Creation

  • Creation

    painter: Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh

  • Dating

    1750 - 1760

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    oil on canvas

  • Dimensions

    • height 40 cm x width 49.5 cm
    • depth 8 cm

This work is about

  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Acquisition

    purchase 1949-06

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    Inv.; collection Adolphe Schloss (c. 1842/3-1910), Paris;{Note RMA.} confiscated by the Nazis from his children, Château de Chambon, near Tulle, for Adolph Hitler’s Führermuseum, 1943; war recuperation, Commission for Recovery of Art, 25 March 1947;{MCCP website, no. 38453.} restituted to the Schloss family after World War II;{According to the catalogue for their sale, Paris (Galerie Charpentier), 25 May 1949.} their sale, Paris (Galerie Charpentier), 25 May 1949, no. 67, fl. 3,522.30, to the museum

  • Remarks

    Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentation

    • Hanna Klarenbeek en Egge Knol, Albarta ten Oever (1772-1854) een vrouw in de kunst, [tent. cat.] Groninger Museum, 2017, pp. 30 (afb.), 32, 34.
    • A. Wassenbergh, 'Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh, 18de eeuwsche schildres van gezelschapstukken te Goningen', Oud-Holland 62 (1947), p. 195-198.
    • C.J. de Bruyn Kops, 'Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh en haar familie, een 18de-eeuws schildersmilieu te Groningen', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 12 (1961), p. 128-132, 145.

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