Study for "Autopsy at the Hôtel-Dieu"
1876
Painter, French, 1852 - 1929

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
Gift of the Knoxville Academy of Medicine, Knoxville, Tennessee
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Dimensions
overall: 53.3 x 43.2 cm (21 x 17 in.)
framed: 70.49 x 60.33 x 4.76 cm (27 3/4 x 23 3/4 x 1 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2006.158.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Acquired c. 1950 in Italy by Dr. P. Herbert Acuff [d. 1951], Knoxville;[1] purchased from his estate by Dr. E. Charles Sienknecht, Dr. B.M. Overholt, and Dr. J. Gilbert Eblen, all of Knoxville, and donated 1957 to the Knoxville Academy of Medicine; gift 2006 to NGA.
[1] The provenance information was supplied by Dr. John M. Burkhart, representing the Knoxville Academy of Medicine, in a letter of 30 November 2006 to Florence Coman, and a memorandum of 3 December 1989 from the Academy records (letter and copy of the memorandum in NGA curatorial files).
Associated Names
Bibliography
2015
Hunter, Mary. "Intern, Orderly, Artist, Corpse: Emerging Masculinities in Henri Gervex's Autopsy at Hôtel-Dieu." Oxford Art Journal 38, no. 3 (2015): 413-415, fig. 5.
Inscriptions
lower left in red, underlined by the artist: H. Gervex
Wikidata ID
Q20188823