A convalescent young woman reading. Gouache painting by David Bles.

  • Bles, David Joseph, 1821-1899.
Date:
[between 1800 and 1899]
Reference:
47340i
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A convalescent young woman reading. Gouache painting by David Bles. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

She is reading a Bible which is open on a lectern. On a table in the foreground are a beaker and a medicine bottle. Through a window on the left a church tower is visible in the distance

Publication/Creation

[between 1800 and 1899]

Physical description

1 painting : gouache on paper ; sheet 18.3 x 16.6 cm

Contributors

Reference

Wellcome Collection 47340i

Creator/production credits

Bles painted several paintings of nursing scenes, e.g. Christie's South Kensington 29 November 1988 lot 162 and 19 March 1999 lot 257 ("Nursing the sick father"); Christie's Amsterdam, 28 May 1986 lot 216 (Comforting the sick")

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