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Dance of Death, La danse macabre, French etchings from 1875, L'eau-forte en 1875, print, Series number, 20, 40, Dance of Death with clergy, nobles and demons and skeletons. printmaker: Léonce Petit, after design by Léonce Petit, publisher: Alfred Cadart, Paris, 1875, Léonce Petit, Alfred Cadart, printmaker, publisher, paper, etching, drypoint, intaglio printmaking technique, drypoint and plate tone on uncut leaf, height 103 mm x width 165 mm, dance of Death, Death together with one or more human beings, A tall narrow rectangular etching shows a crowded medieval street scene with buildings and towers lining the sides and a raised wooden scaffold in the distance where several figures hang from crossbeams, while a crowd of armored and robed figures fills the street below; in the foreground a group of onlookers stand and walk, including a man leading a donkey, a woman in a long dress, and others in period clothing, with small animals on the ground; below that scene, a wide horizontal etching depicts a procession of dancing skeletal and human figures linked by hands, some wearing robes or hats and others shown as bones, leaping across a barren landscape with hills and scattered crosses under a sky dotted with small flying shapes.

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Photo12/Liszt Collection

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Keywords

Dance Death La danse macabre French etchings 1875 L'eau-forte en 1875 print Series number 20 40 clergy nobles demons skeletons printmaker Léonce Petit design publisher Alfred Cadart Paris paper etching drypoint intaglio printmaking technique plate tone uncut leaf height 103 mm x width 165 mm dance Death together human beings tall narrow rectangular etching crowded medieval street scene buildings towers lining sides raised wooden scaffold distance several figures hang crossbeams crowd armored robed figures fills street foreground group onlookers stand walk man leading donkey woman long dress period clothing small animals ground scene wide horizontal depicts procession dancing skeletal human figures linked hands wearing robes hats shown bones leaping across barren landscape hills scattered crosses under sky dotted small flying shapes