he sick woman, Jan Havicksz. SteenBroken down by fever, the young woman lays her head on the pillow. Is she suffering from a broken heart, or is she pregnant? To find out, charlatans would smother a strip of the woman's clothing in a stove - the smell would give the secret away. Here Jan Steen shows one such charlatan during his diagnosis. His old-fashioned clothes make him look like a joke.
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