Waiting to be X-rayed

Place Europe: France, Paris
Accession Number ART50255
Collection type Art
Measurement framed: 59.7 cm x 74.3 cm x 8.4 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on canvas
Maker Bunny, Rupert
Place made France: Paris
Date made 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Several wounded patients waiting in an ante-room to be X-rayed. Through the doorway a patient is seen being positioned under the X-ray machine by two doctors. Rupert Bunny worked as an orderly in the American Hospital in Neuilly, France, where the wounded had been brought by ambulance to Paris from the front line. Bunny's role was to carry the patients to the operating theatres. He was thus able to witness the tragedy of the wounded. 'The bandage hall', Red Cross collection, Melbourne, was also painted on this theme.