Gallery›Wellcome Collection›An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman. Photogravure by R. Schuster, 1906, after a painting by E. Simonet, 1890.
An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman. Photogravure by R. Schuster, 1906, after a painting by E. Simonet, 1890.
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An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman. Photogravure by R. Schuster, 1906, after a painting by E. Simonet, 1890.

Enrique Simonet y Lombardo

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: L'anatomie du coeur ; E. Simonet Rom<a '90> ; E. Simonet pinx. ; Rud. Schuster, Heliogr.

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