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Oil painting of a crowded 18th-century interior: men in powdered wigs and women in lace veils, one man in a green embroidered coat in the foreground.

Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.

A crowded interior of powdered-wigged men and women in 18th-century dress gathers closely in dim light. In the foreground a man in a green coat with embroidered collar looks upward, while a woman in a lace veil and black choker stands at right, and others hold open books.

Artist
Claude Louis Desrais
Date
[between 1778 and 1784?]
Medium
Oil paintings Paintings
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 3322 px
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Public domain · Licensed CC BY 4.0 (Wellcome Collection) by Wellcome Collection; credit required.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier C · as stated by the source: CC BY 4.0 (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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