![Jan Steen - The Lovesick Maiden [c.1660] by Gandalf's Gallery](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sjKYeK-bM_mL8lsX18qThnYlNeiwAhrWpmyY9XQZDNOiJ5gIzeSLLuF1TyfHe6lhqEb7jub2NmSG7UNgayl0AFBQAzp4d3IIe1CJMqvCCxsyPf3qo1gewYiZnEIdQomg=s0-d)
Doctors were familiar targets of parody in Steen's native Leiden, the home of a famous medical school. Borrowing from the comic stage, Steen identifies the old man as a quack by his peculiar clothing, while the nature of the young lady's malady is suggested by the Cupid over the door, and other intimations like the open bed.
[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - Oil on canvas, 86.4 x 99.1 cm]
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