After training with Alexandre Cabanel and Jean-Léon Gérôme, Dagnan-Bouveret (French, 1852 - 1929) turned from classical themes to subjects drawn from everyday life. In this scene, a country doctor bandages a boy's injured hand, while his family looks on with varying degrees of concern. The artist actually witnessed this incident while traveling with a doctor friend in the Franche-Comté region of eastern France. When this painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1880, it established the artist's reputation as an excellent reporter of rural customs and as a Realist who explored the psychological aspects of his subjects.
[Oil on canvas, 90.7 x 130.8 cm]
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