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The Woman with Dropsy
Artist	Gerrit Dou
Year	c. 1663
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	86 cm × 67 cm (34 in × 26 in)
Location	Musée du Louvre, Paris

The Woman with Dropsy or The Dropsical Woman is an oil-on-canvas painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Gerrit Dou, created c. 1663. It shows a woman suffering from edema and is considered as one of Dou's masterpieces.

Previously in Charles Emmanuel IV's collections, he gave it to Bertrand Clauzel in December 1798. Then adjutant-general to revolutionary France's Armée d'Italie, Clauzel offered it to the French Directory, which in 1799 added it to the Republic's central art museum (later to become the Louvre Museum), making it the first painting to be donated to that collection and placing Clauzel at the top of the plaque of donors on the "rotonde d'Apollon". It is still in the Louvre as INV. 1213.

References

1. (in French) "Base Joconde entry".
2. (in French) "Louvre Collections entry". 1663.
3. (in French) Qui est la femme hydropique ?, article dans Sortir, supplément culturel de Télérama, 27 novembre 2019.
4. "RKDimages entry".

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