Focus on this artwork and discuss the abstract.
A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière (French: Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière) is an 1887 group tableau portrait painted by the history and genre artist André Brouillet (1857–1914). The painting, one of the best-known in the history of medicine, shows the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot giving a clinical demonstration with patient Marie Wittman to a group of postgraduate students. Many of his students are identifiable; one is Georges Gilles de la Tourette, the physician who described Tourette syndrome.
It hangs in a corridor of the Descartes University in Paris.
Descartes University in Paris André Brouillet Tourette syndrome Georges Gilles de la Tourette genre Jean-Martin Charcot genre art Marie Wittman Paris