Sujet

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

Légende

The Old Woman from "The Dance of Death", 1538, (1877). Death is depicted guiding an old woman who walks with the help of a cane and holding a rosary in her hand. Another skeleton leads the way while playing a musical percussion instrument. 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_252

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

41.6Mo (4.1Mo) / 26.9cm x 38.8cm / 3173 x 4578 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Germany female women woman people walking age historical music German arts country musician book clothes profile death dress poor poverty Renaissance text location century musical instrument musical instruments gesturing skeleton clothing literature concept xylophone walking stick mortality APPAREL B&W full length three people hand gesture posture full-length lettering arm raised old woman engraved engraving cloak titled facsimile Arm Up allegory personification 19th century summoning elderly woman 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 old age Hans Holbein the Younger danse macabre memento mori engraving portrait Western script Unknown Paul Paul Lacroix Lacroix lower case french text xylophone player 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