Sujet

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

Légende

The Lawyer from "The Dance of Death", 1538, (1877). A lawyer takes money in the middle of the street when he is bribed. Death is depicted as the centre of the scene contemplating the bribe. 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_253

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

38.0Mo (5.0Mo) / 25.7cm x 37.1cm / 3036 x 4376 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors Germany wealth standing holding people hat time historical German arts country hats law book clothes death dress wealthy Renaissance text location century affluence hourglass payment belt skeleton paying lawyer clothing lawyers literature bribery concept affluent mortality APPAREL B&W full length receiving four people full-length lettering hour glass engraved engraving cloak bribe titled facsimile allegory personification 19th century summoning 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 outside danse macabre memento mori street engraving portrait money belt 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