Painting of nuns at work, Hospices de Beaune

Painting by Joseph Bail, 1862-1921, showing the nuns at the Hospice de Beaune mending sheets in their spare time, at Les Hospices de Beaune, or Hotel-Dieu de Beaune, a charitable almshouse and hospital for the poor, built 1443-57 by Flemish architect Jacques Wiscrer, and founded by Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of Burgundy, and his wife Guigone de Salins, in Beaune, Cote d'Or, Burgundy, France. Bail made many paintings of life in the Hospices. The hospital was run by the nuns of the order of Les Soeurs Hospitalieres de Beaune, and remained a hospital until the 1970s. The building now houses the Musee de l'Histoire de la Medecine, or Museum of the History of Medicine, and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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13434798

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45118557

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5906px x 4212px (5.4MB)

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Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen