Sujet

The Child, 1538, (1877). Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Child, 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. (Colorised black and white print).

Date

1877

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/LTL

Notre référence

HRM26A46_350

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50.5Mo (7.9Mo) / 29.4cm x 43.0cm / 3477 x 5079 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Germany Europe portrait female women woman people child children domestic historical family German arts country parent book cooking cookery continent European color mother death distress leading motherhood Renaissance location century holding hands skeleton household parenting loss horror literature copy concept TRAGEDY distressed series posture four people old woman engraved engraving mum colourised facsimile Colour tragic allegory hearth 19th century elderly woman allegorical 16th century 1870s allegorical figure nineteenth century sixteenth century history historic artistic school dance of death infant mortality Northern Renaissance Hans Holbein the Younger engraving portrait Unknown Paul Paul Lacroix Lacroix Holbein the Younger Hans Holbein Hans Holbein Holbein Hans colorised 1877 1538 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 LT L