[The Wertheim picture. Biography of a painting]

Description of the painting "Wertheim bei einer gynäkologischen Operation" ('Wertheim performing a gynecological operation') by the famous Austrian portraitist John Quincey Adams. The surgeon Ernst Wertheim is being assisted by his private assistant Theodor Micholitsch (1st assistant) and by Wilhelm Weibel (2nd assistant). The names of the doctor performing the anesthesia and of the surgical nurse who is handling him the instruments--a sister of the order of the Sisters of Saint Vincent of Paul--are unknown. The painting--signed 1907--was painted during Ernst Wertheim's period as head of the gynecological department (the Bettina-Stiftungspavillon) at the "Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital", Vienna.