Sujet

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

Légende

The Child from "The Dance of Death", 1538, (1877). Death visits a child who is at home, with symptoms of being ill and at the moment when the family is cooking on a bonfire. Death takes the child by the hand and leads him out of the house. 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_255

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

42.5Mo (6.5Mo) / 27.0cm x 39.4cm / 3189 x 4658 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Germany agriculture female women woman people male boy boys child children interior job domestic farming historical family German arts country book cooking cookery occupation death distress leading poor poverty brother kneeling Renaissance text location century departure holding hands profession inside son skeleton household upset leaving sibling literature labourer labourers going concept distressed peasant peasants mortality B&W full length posture four people full-length lettering departing engraved engraving family life titled facsimile allegory personification 19th century summoning Indoors black & white black and white B W allegorical farm hand farmhand farm hands farmhands farm worker farm workers 16th century 1870s allegorical figure farmworker farmworkers nineteenth century personifying sixteenth century history historic agricultural worker artistic school dance of death farm labourer infant mortality navvy 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 agricultural workers The Dance of Death farm labourers 19th-century agricultural labourer 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