Sujet

The Merchant from "The Dance of Death", 1538, (1877). Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Merchant from "The Dance of Death", 1538, (1877). Scene depicting two rich merchants in a port. Death chooses one of them who is resisting, trying, in spite of the situation, to take some coins that he was counting at the time. Facsimile of an engraving belonging to the series "The Dance of Death" by Hans Holbein the Younger, in "Les Simulacres de la Mort", 1538. From "Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a l'Epoque de la Renaissance", Paris, 1877.

Date

1538

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/LTL

Notre référence

HRM26A20_247

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

44.3Mo (5.9Mo) / 27.3cm x 40.7cm / 3220 x 4808 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation Germany people male man men historical German arts country money finance harbour trade book guy port ship ships clothes death frightened dress trader Renaissance text location century counting alarm scared afraid clothing literature bale concept scary mortality frightening APPAREL B&W full length three people full-length lettering fearful merchant engraved engraving cloak titled facsimile frighten allegory personification 19th century summoning water transport black & white black and white B W allegorical 16th century 1870s allegorical figure nineteenth century personifying sixteenth century history historic artistic school dance of death Northern Renaissance Hans Holbein the Younger danse macabre memento mori engraving portrait Western script Unknown Paul Paul Lacroix Lacroix lower case french text Holbein the Younger Hans Holbein Hans Holbein Holbein Hans 1877 Holbein Hans the Younger The Dance of Death 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing 1530s Hans Holbein II Holbein Hans el Joven Holbein Hans the Younger Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Agee Les Simulachres et Histoires facees de la Mort LT L