A man attended by a surgeon (suicide of Seneca?). Oil painting.

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44764i
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The man on the left leans back in pain while the surgeon opens a blood-vessel in his arm: possibly the suicide of Seneca?

Physical description

1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 87.5 x 110.5 cm

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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/73/89

Creator/production credits

The man on the left is similar in style to figures in paintings by Giovan Battista Langetti (Genoa 1625 - Venice 1676), who worked mainly in Venice, while the surgeon on the right is similar to figures in paintings by Pietro Della Vecchia, who also worked in Venice at the same time, sometimes imitating the styles of other painters

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Wellcome Collection 44764i

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