Christ heals the haemorrhaging woman; women wash their linen in a pond. Etching by G. Bodenehr after C.J. Vernet and J.C. Tardieu.

  • Vernet, Joseph, 1714-1789.
Date:
1700-1799
Reference:
23873i
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Collection de Vernet
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The woman's "flow of blood" is often identified with menstrual disorder, or sometimes menorrhagia, unpredictable bleeding before the menopause. Mark and Luke describe the failure of physicians to heal her over twelve years. They also describe how Christ, who is being jostled by a large crowd, suddenly feels "a force go forth from him" and identifies the woman who has sapped it

Publication/Creation

Paris : Rosselin

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 24.7 x 33 cm.

Lettering

Evangelium de muliere, quae sanguinis fluxum patiebatur. Collection de Vernet et d'Histoires de noveau Testament ... La vue peint par Vernet, les figures par Tardieu. Gravé par Gabriel Bodenehr. Extensive lettering in Latin, German and French: all transcribing the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 9, verses 19-22

Creator/production credits

Attributed here to Gabriel Bodenehr the elder (1664?-1758?), on the ground that Nagler (loc. cit.) mentions "127 Bl. biblische Figuren" by him

References note

G.K. Nagler, Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon, München 1835-1852, vol. 1, p. 554

Reference

Wellcome Collection 23873i

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