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Man in black hat takes the pulse of a seated woman in red jacket beside a bed in a dim interior room.

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A physician in a black hat and dark coat leans toward a seated woman in a red jacket and white headcloth, taking her wrist in an interior room. A red curtain hangs at the window, a bed with a green canopy stands behind, and an attendant watches from the right. This is Jan Steen's painting A Physician Taking a Woman's Pulse, dated 1625.

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Date

1625

Medium

Print

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Wikimedia Commons

License

Public domain

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