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The Enema (The Trades, Plate 2)
French
about 1635
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 33.6 × 42.5 cm (13 1/4 × 16 3/4 in.)
Platemark: 27 × 34 cm (10 5/8 × 13 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 27 × 34 cm (10 5/8 × 13 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
Accession Number44.983
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Blum 1042, only state; Duplessis 1392, only state; IFF 1392, i/ii; Le Blanc 751
DescriptionDoctor with syringe, approaching woman in bed, with servants, one carrying chamber pot/chair. "I'ay la siringue en main, hastez vous donc, Madame..." Bound in Bosse book, Oeuvre Gravé.
Marks
Verso, bottom left, stamped in yellow-brown ink, the mark of the MFA Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
ProvenanceJohn Evelyn (b. 1620-d. 1706), London. Elizabeth Day McCormick (b. 1873-d. 1957), Chicago; 1944, her gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 8, 1996)