Harvey Demonstrating the Circulation of the Blood to Charles I

Benjamin-Eugène Fichel

1850

Painting of well-dressed man in hat with plume and sword putting his hand on the chest of a nude man tied down prone on a table with face upturned and mouth open, as several well-dressed men look on from the far side of the table.
Please login or register for free access to Posen Library
Register
Already have an account?
Engage with this Source

Creator Bio

Benjamin-Eugène Fichel

1826–1895
Benjamin-Eugène Fichel was a French artist of small historical and genre paintings who worked in the style of Ernest Meissonier. Like the elder master, Fichel specialized in eighteenth-century themes, and his work was esteemed for its highly refined technique and exactitude of historical details. Fichel attended the École des Beaux-Arts and showed regularly at the Salon, the annual art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, where his paintings won medals in 1857 and 1869. He was named a chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1870.

Related Guide

Scholarship and Science, 1750–1880

 The scholarly and scientific ethos permeated Jewish intellectual life in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and resulted in contributions obscure and renowned. The foundations of the astonishing breakthroughs of Jews in the sciences in the twentieth century were laid in this period.

You may also like

Painting depicting man and woman at a restaurant table as their server stands between them.
Tooltip info icon

At the Restaurant

Though Benjamin-Eugène Fichel is better known for his historical paintings set in the eighteenth century, in this painting he documents modernity itself. Here a wealthy couple orders a meal in a…
View Source

Sprinkler Hora

A gush of joy in the pipe, The pipes, the arteries of the Negev, This is the course of the song, From the faucet to the clod The water of the depths ascends. A pump means bread! Negev, Negev, what’s…
View Source
Painting of stylized figure in profile leaping through the air over rooftops.
Tooltip info icon

The Traveler

The Traveler was painted soon after the Russian Revolution, around the time that Marc Chagall was appointed commissar of the arts for Vitebsk, the site of Yehudah Pen’s academy, where Chagall had…
View Source