A monkey holding a clyster in an apothecary's shop. Engraving by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.

  • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
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1700-1799
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15879i
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A monkey holding a clyster in an apothecary's shop. Engraving by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Paris (Rue St. Jacques) : Basan ; Amsterdam : P. Fouquet

Physical description

1 print : line engraving with etching ; platemark 26.6 x 18.6 cm

Lettering

Le plaisir des dames. D. Teniers inv. ; F. Basan exc.

References note

Marcel Roux, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du dix-huitième siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome II, Paris 1933, p. 113, Pierre-François Basan no. 92 ("92. 'Le plaisir des dames.' Un singe, armé d'une seringue, contrefait l'apothicaire. Sous le tr. c. : 'D. Teniers inv. — F. Basan exe.' Au bas : 'A Paris chés Basan graveur rue St Jacques; et à Amsterdam chés P. Fouquet.' — H. 0m232 x L. 0m180. L'état décrit … Oeuvre de Basan, II, no. 42. Catalogue du fonds de H.-L. Basan, no. 1717. Prix : 10 sols. Pendant du numéro suivant ["93. 'Le plaisir des fous.' Un singe, attisant le feu sous une cornue, contrefait le chimiste.")"
Laurinda S. Dixon: 'Some penetrating insights: The imagery of enemas in art' in Art Journal, Fall 1993, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 28-35 (on representations of enemas in French caricatures)

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