A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière

A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière (French: Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière) is an 1887 group tableau portrait painted by the history and genre artist André Brouillet (1857–1914). The painting, one of the best-known in the history of medicine, shows the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot giving a clinical demonstration with patient Marie Wittman to a group of postgraduate students. Many of his students are depicted within the audience; one such, for instance, is Georges Gilles de la Tourette, the physician who described Tourette syndrome.

The portrait hangs in a corridor of the Descartes University in Paris.