A physician and a nurse discuss the recent death of a patient: the physician instinctively resorts to blaming the patient for non-compliance in following the prescribed dosage. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1840.

  • Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879.
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[1840]
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652988i
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Emotions parisiennes
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A physician and a nurse discuss the recent death of a patient: the physician instinctively resorts to blaming the patient for non-compliance in following the prescribed dosage. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1840. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Paris (Rue du Croissant, 16) : Chez Bauger, [1840] ([Paris] : Imp. d'Aubert & C.ie)

Physical description

1 print : crayon lithograph ; image and border 22.7 x 19.1 cm.

Lettering

Le médecin et la garde malade. H.D. ... Lettering continues: Comment va le malade? Hélas Monsieur, il est mort ce matin à six heures! Ah il est mort le gaillard! .. Il n'a donc pas pris ma potion? Si Monsieur. Il en a donc trop pris? Non Monsieur. C'est qu'il n'en a assez pris. H.D.

Edition

State III of III.

References note

Loys Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré, vol. XXII, Daumier, New York 1969, no. 714
Jean Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome cinquième, Paris 1949, pp. 472-473, Daumier nos. 138-139 ("138. Emotions parisiennes, suite de 51 pl. dans le Charivari du 2 juin 1839 au 26 nov. 1842. 139. … 30. Le médecin et la garde malade [L. D. 714, 2e état")

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Wellcome Collection 652988i

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