M0006857: A dentist at work

Previous title, replaced May 2020: "The Dentist". Painting by Johannes Victors

Photograph of an oil painting on canvas by Johannes Victors, depicting a dentist at work. This reproduction was made during the VI International Congress for the History of Medicine held in Leiden 1927 at the Exposition d'art Medico-Historique and is described as Tableaux [Painting] 37, Le dentiste, in the exhibition catalogue. The original painting is held by the Boymans Museum, Rotterdam.

1 May 1940

1 photograph sheet film negative; 17.5 x 12.5 cm

A copy of the exhibition catalogue has been digitised by the National library of the Netherlands Catalogue d'une collection d'art medico-historique.

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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