Carel van Savoyen

1621 – 1665

Flemish painter, also known as Carlo da Savoia. In 1649 he married Catharina Wandelman and from then on lived and worked in Amsterdam. He was a student of Jan Cossiers. One of his painting portrays Jan de Doot, a blacksmith, holding in one hand a kitchen knife, and in the other a large kidney stone the size and shape of an egg. This 17th century Dutch blacksmith is said to have performed a successful lithotomy on himself in 1651. This painting is in the Anatomy Museum of the University of Leiden.

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