detail from Portrait of François Chicoyneau, King’s Physician in 1732 and General Superintendent of Medicine in France,Claude Arnulphy. Versailles, Paris. Photograph © Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, New York. Reproduced with permission.

The complete work is printed above.

This painting is an “unmasked” portrait of Dr. Franciscus Chicoyneau (1672 – 1752), the famous French physician who was shown in his plague prevention garb on the cover of the previous issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Dr. Chicoyneau was Chancellor of the Universite´ de Me´decine, Montpellier. The portrait was made in 1750, by Claude Arnulphy, Aix en Provence (1698 – 1786), who was a “Peintre du Roi” for the French court. He painted many portraits of members of the French upper classes but is not known for any other work. This portrait of Dr. Chicoyneau is in the collection at Versailles. (Ann Arvin, Cover Art Editor)

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