I have no information on this intriguing and slightly troubling image. I found it on the wonderful Mary Evans Picture Library website, with a caption that merely reads "'The Anatomy Lesson': Professor Cupid and his Young Pupils," 1918."
If anyone has any information about this image, please let me know here.
6 comments:
Lovely! :-)
strange how the professor almost looks like a young harry potter depiction.
I thought I had seen this image somewhere before...
http://www.anat.sunysb.edu/
The anatomical sciences department @ Stony Brook has it on the front page with each of the prof's heads photoshopped in, lol.
No no no no - different image same idea!
lol I think it is the Peter Pan and wendy version! It's fabulous and just the kind of thing I love.
They all spring from this same source image: Rembrandt's "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp."
http://www.pitt.edu/~zmli/handlab/
I had no idea it was such a trope, and have never seen a parody of it so odd and pervy as the one I posted...
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