Sujet

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

Légende

The Miser from "The Dance of Death", 1538, (1877). Depiction of a rich man who has locked himself in a room with barred windows. Coins, chests and bags of money all around him. A skeleton is trying to take coins from the table, being rebuked by the man who does not seem to be afraid of it. Facsimile of an engraving belonging to the series "The Dance of Death" by Hans Holbein the Younger, in "Les Simulachres et Histoires facées de la Mort", 1538. From "Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et à l'Epoque de la Renaissance", Paris, 1877.

Date

1538

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/LTL

Notre référence

HRM26A20_251

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

43.6Mo (7.9Mo) / 27.2cm x 40.1cm / 3215 x 4739 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Germany wealth people male interior man men historical sitting German arts country money finance currency rich coin window book guy tables death table wealthy Renaissance text location century affluence gesturing coinage inside treasure taking skeleton furniture literature concept affluent chest disagreement mortality seated B&W two people full length hand gesture posture arms raised full-length lettering disagreeing treasure chest barred engraved engraving titled facsimile arms up Miser allegory personification raised arms 19th century summoning Indoors black & white black and white B W allegorical 16th century 1870s allegorical figure nineteenth century personifying rebuking sixteenth century history historic artistic school dance of death rebuke Northern Renaissance Hans Holbein the Younger danse macabre memento mori engraving portrait Western script Unknown Paul Paul Lacroix Lacroix container lower case french text Holbein the Younger Hans Holbein Hans Holbein Holbein Hans 1877 Holbein Hans the Younger The Dance of Death 19th-century 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