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A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière ("''Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière''"), a group tableau portrait painted by the genre artist Pierre Aristide André Brouillet (1857-1914), is one of the best known paintings in the history of medicine.〔HIMETOP: (History of Medicine Topographical Database: "Un Leçon Clinique à la Salpêtrière" (1887) by André Brouillet. )〕 It hangs in a corridor of the Descartes University in Paris. == History == Although "rather undistinguished … artistically … the painting is remarkable for its dimensions, the figures being nearly life size".〔Micale (2004), p. 74.〕 The painting is a rather large work, painted in bright, highly contrasting colours,〔Morlock (2007), p. 129.〕 measuring 430 cm x 290 cm.〔Signoret (1983), p. 689.〕 The work was created by the academic history painter André Brouillet at the age of thirty, from individual studies of the thirty participants,〔Morlock (2007, p. 135) argues that most of these individual studies would have been taken by a photographer, rather than sketched by an artist. In support of his claim, Morlock draws attention to the "lack of interaction between the figures in the scene and the marked failures of their sightlines to meet".〕 and presented in the prevailing tradition of academic group portraits. It was first displayed (with favourable notices) at the ''salon d'art'' of 1 May 1887, and later purchased by the ''Academy of Fine Arts'' for 3,000 francs.〔Harris (2005), p. 471.〕 Brouillet was a pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme who was, himself, also renowned for the fact that his illustrative paintings, such as ''Phryne before the Areopagus'' (1861), were so popular as lithographic prints that it seemed they were "painted in order to be reproduced".〔Morloch (2007), p. 134.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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