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Edme-Jean Pigal

French painter (1798-1872)

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Field of work
Lithography

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Images from the collections

Images by Edme-Jean Pigal

19 images from works
  • A coachman with a riding whip stands in front of a carriage, raises his hat, and offers a ride to Charenton. Coloured lithograph by E.J. Pigal.
  • The workplace of a shoemender next to a tavern: the shoemender has gone next door for a drink in the company of the barman. Lithograph by N.L. Delaunois, 1832, after E.J. Pigal.
  • A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • A blind hurdy gurdy player and his son and two dancing dogs. Coloured lithograph by White after E.J. Pigal.
  • Three lecherous men gather round a pretty street seller, admiring her rather than her wares. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé after E. Pigal.
  • A poor doctor takes the pulse of a rich, corpulent patient and announces that he is very ill. Lithograph after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • A rural tooth-drawer in his surgery extracting a tooth from a patient. Lithograph by E. Pigal.
  • A group of fashionable physicians gathered around a sick patient listen to one of their number proclaiming the virtue of leeches. Coloured lithograph after E.J. Pigal.
  • A torpid patient claims to his physician that his debility is a result of serving in the war. Coloured lithograph E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • A poor doctor takes the pulse of a rich, corpulent patient and announces that he is very ill. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
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Works from the collections

16 works

    • Pictures
    • Online

    A female barber lathering the face of a nervous man. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé after E.J. Pigal, 1825.

    Q3047679 | Date: [1825] | Reference: 30761i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A boy with a monkey perched on his shoulder is begging for alms from an elegant gentlemen. Coloured lithograph by E.J. Pigal.

    Q3047679 | Reference: 44086i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    The workplace of a shoemender next to a tavern: the shoemender has gone next door for a drink in the company of the barman. Lithograph by N.L. Delaunois, 1832, after E.J. Pigal.

    Q3047679 | Date: [1832] | Reference: 29524i
    • Pictures

    A poor doctor takes the pulse of a rich, corpulent patient and announces that he is very ill. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.

    Q3047679 | Reference: 16489i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A group of fashionable physicians gathered around a sick patient listen to one of their number proclaiming the virtue of leeches. Coloured lithograph after E.J. Pigal.

    Q3047679 | Reference: 16364i

Frequent collaborators

Pierre Langlumé

Related topics

Physician and patient
Costume - France
Class consciousness
Wealth
Poor
Social Class
Physicians - Salaries, etc.
Pulse - Measurement
Physicians - Clothing

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