An Accident, 1879. After training with Alexandre Cabanel (1823-89) and Jean-L?on G?r?me (1824-1904), Dagnan-Bouveret turned from Classical themes to subjects drawn from everyday life. In this scene, a country doctor bandages a boys injured hand, while his family looks on with varying expressions of concern. The artist witnessed an incident like this while traveling with a doctor friend in the Franche-Comt? region of eastern France. When this painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1880, it established the artists reputation as both a perceptive reporter of rural customs and a Realist who explored the psychological states of his subjects.