The article provides a critical reflection on the Iconography of Salpêtrière from the perspective of relationships between photographs from Charcot's clinic and the nude. The author discusses how the images supposed to provide medical documentation became an erotic object elevated by the Surrealists. It seems that art history and the history of medical documentation are intertwined more closely than one might have suspected, and the hysterical females from Charcot's clinic have become inspiration both for artists and writers.