572 ADRIAEN BROUWER SECT. ^2. An Operation on the Arm. A surgeon takes a plaster from a man's arm and bandages him. A very fine picture. [Pendant to 136.] Panel, 10 inches by 7 inches. Sales. Gerard Vervoort, Brussels, September 19, 1746 (Terw. 44), No. 35 (190 florins). Comte F. de Robiano, Brussels, May I, 1837, No. 58 (230 francs). '33. AN OPERATION ON THE SHOULDER. In the middle, a young dark-haired peasant sits on a wooden chair in profile to the right. His face, which is drawn with pain, is turned to the spectator. Above the waist he is stripped to his shirt, which is rolled back from the right shoulder. Beside him to the right are surgical instruments on a table. Behind him to the left stands the surgeon, wearing a blue cap, with his right foot on a stool. The surgeon opens an abscess in the patient's right shoulder. An old woman with a white cap stands behind, looking on ; she holds a jug in her left hand. On a shelf on the back wall, to the right, are two pots of ointment and a bottle. Painted about 1636-7, according to the catalogue. Signed with the monogram on the table to the right ; panel, 13^ inches by IOJ inches. A copy is in the Mannheim Museum, 1900 catalogue, No. 243. Etched by J. Eissenhardt and O. Reim. Bought in 1868 by the Frankfort Art Union. In the Stadel'sches Kunstinstitut, Frankfort-on-Main, 1900 catalogue, No. 148. ^-^34. An Operation on the Shoulder. In the centre, a peasant, seen in full face, sits at a table. His feet are on a stool ; he holds his right leg with both hands. His mouth is wide open as if he is screaming. A surgeon, standing behind him to the right, operates on his left shoulder, which is bare. An assistant prepares a bandage. The expression on the patient's face is good, but the figure of the operator is not equal to Brouwer's work, so that the genuineness of the picture is not incontestable. Panel, 12^ inches by n inches. In the La Caze collection, Paris. In the Louvre, Paris, La Caze bequest, 1903 catalogue, No. 1915. 34*7 . An Operation on the Back. A surgeon operates on the back of a man seated before him. There are other figures. Panel, i8 inches by 14 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, May I, 1849, No. 24. AN OPERATION ON THE FOOT. A red-haired man, with his foot on a stool, watches in pain as an elderly surgeon takes a plaster from a wound on his foot. An old woman sits at the back, watching attentively, while she warms a new plaster over an earthenware pot of embers. Through an open door in the right background is a laboratory, where there is a short stout man with an apron. Through an open window above to the left are seen two houses and trees. A glass ball hangs from the timbered roof. On the floor to the left are two large jugs. The trees and houses, in particular, are very characteristic.
