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Is there a doctor in the house?
Behind the scenes
Gerrit Dou's The Physician is a favourite work in our collection:
![Gerrit Dou The physician. Oil on copper. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetū, Heathcote Helmore Bequest 1965](/media/cache/96/fa/96fa21375efd73779e2412e59336f557.jpg)
Gerrit Dou The physician. Oil on copper. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetū, Heathcote Helmore Bequest 1965
As was common practice, this subject has been copied and re-copied many times. The undisputed king of the doctors is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, where it is signed and dated:
![Gerrit Dou Arzt. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie GG_592](/media/cache/39/42/394285c4134c3d1e90c4f284e121e052.jpg)
Gerrit Dou Arzt. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie GG_592
But he is also to be found at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam painted by Jan van Staveren:
![Jan Adriaensz. van Staveren De Dokter. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam SK-A-2321](/media/cache/5c/2a/5c2a95b8b8f6cedd9bc6ef0a24e53a25.jpg)
Jan Adriaensz. van Staveren De Dokter. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam SK-A-2321
And at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow:
![Gerrit Dou Physician. Pushkin Museum, Moscow PM 544](/media/cache/a5/89/a589aa6bcd05766e697df8931e7dafbf.jpg)
Gerrit Dou Physician. Pushkin Museum, Moscow PM 544
And as a print, the doctor now downgraded to a mere charlatan, can be found in the British Museum:
![Die Kaiserliche königliche Bildergalerie im Belvedere zu Wien / Belvedere gallery / Der Charlatan After Gerrit DouPublished by Carl HaasPrint made by Sebastian Langer Intermediary draughtsman Sigmund Ferdinand von Perger AN1040040001](/media/cache/07/75/077526f6b4e20f251b6223039e13f94a.jpg)
Die Kaiserliche königliche Bildergalerie im Belvedere zu Wien / Belvedere gallery / Der Charlatan
After Gerrit Dou
Published by Carl Haas
Print made by Sebastian Langer
Intermediary draughtsman Sigmund Ferdinand von Perger
AN1040040001
With thanks to Jeremy Marshall for this original research.