#hansen’s disease

Posed, acrylic on canvas, 2019

“Case 27. Lepra Macula.— Aged 14 years. Presented herself in my clinic at the Charity Hospital, February 28th, 1888, with the following history: Born in the Fifth District of this city (Algiers) and has always lived there, attending one of the public schools.”

Source image (right picture) from Leprosy in New Orleans by Henry W. Blanc, 1889.

Posed, acrylic on linen, 2019 (bottom right image is of the painting’s first layer, bottom left and top right are finished)

Source image (top left) from Leprosy in New Orleans by Henry W. Blanc, 1889: 

“Case 27. Lepra Macula.— Aged 14 years. Presented herself in my clinic at the Charity Hospital, February 28th, 1888, with the following history: Born in the Fifth District of this city (Algiers) and has always lived there, attending one of the public schools.”