Interior of a hospital with a woman washing a man's feet. Oil painting.
- Date:
- [between 1500 and 1599?]
- Reference:
- 44863i
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Description
The interior of a hospital, in which various acts of charity take place, including the visiting of the sick (right), a traveller receiving hospitality (left background), and a woman washing a man's feet (foreground). Left, a wealthy donor or almoner holds a ewer and a towel
Publication/Creation
[between 1500 and 1599?]
Physical description
1 painting : oil on wood ; wood 86.5 x 66.2 cm
Reference
Wellcome Collection 44863i
Creator/production credits
"It does not look Netherlandish to us. Some elements like the women at the bed show German influences, others like the woman with the child and the pose of the man in right hand foreground make one think of French (Fontainebleau-like) characteristics. Altogether, an origin on the French-German border (Alsace?) seems possible, but any definite attribution is hard to find" (letter from G. Kotting, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, to the Wellcome institute, 16 August 1984)
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