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Oil painting of a crowded asylum hall: a man in a dark coat stands centre while patients in ragged clothes gather, a woman reclines at right.

Pinel freeing the insane from their chains, Salpêtrière hospital, Paris

A dim interior crowded with figures in ragged clothing and white bonnets, with a man in a dark frock coat and hat standing at the center. A half-dressed woman stands near a crouching man, and a reclining woman lies at the right, painted in loose, dark oil brushwork.

Artist
Robert-Fleury, Tony, 1837-1911.
Date
[1876?]
Medium
Oil paintings
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 2949 px
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Public domain · Licensed CC BY 4.0 (Wellcome Collection) by Wellcome Collection; credit required.
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)