Death and Mortality Themes

Powerful illustrations reflecting themes of death and mortality, featuring figures like skeletons and woodcutters in somber, atmospheric scenes.

Un lever de soleil , Sunrises & sunsets, Hills, Buildings, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)

Lot and his daughters and Hagar and Ismaël in the desert, Bernard Picart (workshop of), After Bernard Picart, 1683 - 1733 print Two performances on a leaf. Above: The daughters of Lot feed their father drunk. In the background the burning sodom. Under: An angel points to a source like she and her son Ismaël to be in danger of being thirsty. Under the representations references to the corresponding Bible text. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving Lot's daughters make their father drunk. an angel appears and reveals a well of water to Hagar

A Dell, Helmingham Park, Suffolk, Print made by David Lucas, 1802-1881, British, after John Constable, 1776-1837, British, 1830, Mezzotint, drypoint and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 11 3/4 x 17 1/2 inches (29.8 x 44.5 cm), Plate: 7 x 9 inches (17.8 x 22.9 cm), and Image: 5 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches (14.6 x 18.7 cm), autumn, bridge (built work), grasses, landscape, stream, trees, England, Europe, Helmingham, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Figures under a tree; Turks under a swear tree for a mosque. Three figures sitting under a tree. In the background three walking figures. The number 65 is printed in mirror image at the bottom.

Emile Bernard (1868-1941). Continuation of original etchings, in 1st state on Japan, for "the end of Satan. First state of etchings. N ° 32." What is the one that comes by the Fresh Green Path ". Etching and aquatinte . 1935. Paris, house of Victor Hugo. 101109-12 Annies thirty 1930 30, aquatinte, baton, drawing, etching, man, illustration, walking, litter work

Les faiseurs de fagots , Woodcutters, Fuelwood, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)

Beneath the Fig Trees (Sous les figuiers), 1895. Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (French, 1863-1951). Etching, aquatint, and drypoint; platemark: 31.3 x 49.3 cm (12 5/16 x 19 7/16 in.); sheet: 44 x 62.3 cm (17 5/16 x 24 1/2 in.).

Alphonse Legros, Edge of a Forest in Bourgogne (Un coin de foret en Bourgogne) Edge of a Forest in Bourgogne (Un coin de foret en Bourgogne)

Ideal Pastoral Life, 1829. Edward Calvert (British, 1799-1883). Lithograph;

Soldier with bayonet in a landscape, Isaac Weissenbruch, 1850 drawing paper. ink. pencil pen landscapes. land forces. firearms: rifle. hacking and thrusting weapons (BAYONET)

Saint Jerome Reading in an Italianate Landscape, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1653 print Japanese paper (handmade paper) etching / drypoint St. Jerome as hermit in a landscape, reading

Willemynken begs for grace of God in hell between demons, Boëtius Adamsz. Bolswert, 1638 print paper engraving pilgrim(s). representations of hell (with the damned and devils), usually with burning fires

The Quarry (La Curée) 1856-84 Laurent Hotelin. The Quarry (La Curée). Laurent Hotelin (French, active 1836-84). 1856-84. Wood engraving. Prints

Mariano Fortuny y Carbó, L'Amateur de jardin (The Gardening Enthusiast), 1878 L'Amateur de jardin (The Gardening Enthusiast)

Alphonse Legros, Landscape with a Boy in a Tree (Paysage avec un garcon gimpe sur un arbre dite Le denicher d'oiseaux) Landscape with a Boy in a Tree (Paysage avec un garcon gimpe sur un arbre dite Le denicher d'oiseaux)

An etching and aquatint by Francisco Goya from 'The Disasters of War', depicting the suffering caused by war, originally created 1810 and first published 1863.

Dike breach, 1530. Dike breach and flood, November 5, 1530. Flooding with disaster victims in the foreground.

Le Crépuscule des Dieux. Acte III. Siegfried et les Filles du Rhin , Composers, Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints

Summer Day, 1864. Charles-Émile Jacque (French, 1813-1894). Etching;

Tampoco. (Not in This Case Either.), pl. 36 from the series Los desastres de la guerra (The Disasters of War). Artist: Francisco Goya, Spanish, 1746-1828

Ancient Trees by a Mountain Watermill. Dated: 1600/1615. Dimensions: plate: 23.9 × 37.5 cm (9 7/16 × 14 3/4 in.), cut to platemark. Medium: engraving on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Aegidius Sadeler II after Pieter Stevens.

Baron Moïse, the Box, from Au Pied du Sinaï Made 1897 France. Lithograph on greyish-ivory wove chine . Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

An etching by Johann Heinrich Ramberg from 1799 depicting a pair of lovers in an intimate pose, illustrating human figures and expression.

Combien as-tu fait de passions malheureuses Ô Hélène! - Combien as-tu cassé de pipes Ô Hector! ,. Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Lithographs and Other Works

A la mémoire de Robert Schumann , Composers, Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856. Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints

Hamlet: The Death of Ophelia, 1843. Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863). Lithograph;

Nude figure(Pastoral). Artist: Unknown After: François Boucher, French, 1703-1770

Self -made Until he knew; Ridinger, Johann Elias (1698-1767); 18th century (1700-00-00-1800-00-00);

The Early Ploughman, 1861. Samuel Palmer (British, 1805-1881). Etching;

Girl with rakes. Meggendorfer, Lothar (1847-1925), draughtsman, cartoonist

The Vine, or Plumpy Bacchus 1880 Samuel Palmer British. The Vine, or Plumpy Bacchus 398733

Etching by Pieter Nolpe from 1630-1652 depicting a March scene with ships navigating stormy seas, showing waves, sailing vessels, clouds, and horizon.

Adoration of the shepherds: Nightpiece, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1807 - 1808 The print is part of an album. Paris paper etching / drypoint / engraving The print is part of an album. Paris paper etching / drypoint / engraving

Title print for Scherzi di Fantasia with owls at a stone, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, in or before c. 1750 - in or before c. 1762 print Italy paper etching owls

Reproduction of drawing: Juliusz Kossak (1824-1899), November; from: "Tygodnik Ilustrowany" 1866, 1, 172. Anczyc, Władysław Ludwik i Spółka (Kraków ; drukarnia ; 1875-1948), printing house, Meisenbach Riffarth & Co. (Monachium, Berlin, Lipsk ; zakład graficzno-reprodukcyjny ; 1892-), reproduction atelier, Gebethner i Wolff (Warszawa ; wydawnictwo ; 1857-1950), publishing house

Alphonse Legros, Death of the Vagabond (La mort du vagabond) Death of the Vagabond (La mort du vagabond)

Moeris and Galatea, 1883. Samuel Palmer (British, 1805-1881). Etching;

Painting by Johann Carl Loth around 1670 depicting a sleeping silen, using gray brushes with sparse white highlights to show body position and drapery.

Copper engraving and etching by Jean Daullé in 1759 depicting the mythological scene of Jupiter disguised as Diana in love with Calisto, showing figures and classical composition.

A young man kneeling at a love altar in a garden and longing for a monogram in a tree, Young man kneeling at a love altar in a garden, draughtsman: Jean Frédéric Schall, intermediary draughtsman: Claude Jean Baptiste Hoin, 1762 - 1825, paper, brush, h 192 mm × w 134 mm

Nymph based on the arms of two Saters, Jean Honoré Fragonard, After Anonymous, 1763 print An oval bass relief, standing on the ground between the green, with an image of a nymph based on the arms of two kneeling saters. print maker: Italypublisher: Paris paper etching non-aggressive, friendly or neutral activities and relationships of satyr(s). art (+ relief ~ sculpture)

Anne Zernike takes the chickens, Jan Mankes, 1917 print In the background a field with sunflowers and a hay mite. paper etching fowl (cock, hen, chicken, etc.). giving food. hay-stack. flowers: sunflower Eerbeek

Bresdin, Rodolphe, Oriental Scene, Men and a Dog with Young at a Barrel, recto below - handwritten, Three men and a child kneel and stand at a barrel under a tree in the undergrowth and look at a dog with a litter of young. The two men on the right are dressed orientally in long cloaks and they wear a turban on their heads. The arm gestures indicate that they are talking to the farmer. Behind this figure, the facade of a farm with a standing figure in front of it is sketched., print, prints, verso bottom center - stamped, recto bottom right - stamped, recto bottom - stamped, Acheté de Paul Bresdin, 6 Mai 1929 P. et R. Nice, height 68 mm, width 113 mm, French, 1822-08-13 - 1885-01-14, print maker, printmaker, 1844 - 1849, second quarter 19th century, paper, etching, etchings, Work conception, after own design by

Hairy Day, 25 and 26 December 1915 organized by Parliament Charles Lucien Léandre (1862-1934). "Hairy Day, 25 and 26 December 1915 organized by Parliament". Lithography, 1915.

Simon Butler (Indian Trails, vol. II) 1852 Jean-François Millet French. Simon Butler (Indian Trails, vol. II) 367536

L'ne renversé par la foudre , Lightning, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)

John Robert Cozens, 1752-1797, British, Terrano Bridge, Civita Castellana, ca. 1777. Graphite on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

Honoré Daumier, Que nous sommes bêtes d'avoir une peur pareille, 1845 Que nous sommes bêtes d'avoir une peur pareille...

At 30°C, lucky he who can escape and snooze in the forest of Saint-Germain accompanied by his wife and a few lizards, plate 27 from Les Bons Bourgeois 1847 France. Lithograph in black on white wove paper . Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Hermann Weyer, Desert Landscape with a Hermit (verso), 1615 1620 Desert Landscape with a Hermit (verso)

Illustration by Gustave Dore for 'Le Capitaine Fracasse' by Pierre Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872)French, Writer, poet, painter, art critic. Gautier was a defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. Captain Fracasse (Le Capitaine Fracasse) is an 1863 novel by the French writer Théophile Gautier. It is an adventure novel set in the seventeenth century.

Ruigens in Villa Barberini, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1764 print Face in a ruin in The Villa Barberini near Castel Gandolfo. Title on banderol right. Numbered at the top right: Xxiv. Rome paper etching ruin of a building ~ architecture. landscape with ruins. city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions Italy

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A Vagabond Walking Along a Lane. Alphonse Legros; French, 1837-1911. Date: 1885-1895. Dimensions: 143 × 271 mm (image); 150 × 277 mm (plate); 177 × 301 mm (sheet). Etching and drypoint on ivory Japanese paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

ADAM AND EVE, BY GUSTAVE DOR. Dore, 1832 - 1883, French. Engraving for the Bible. 1870, Art, Artist, holy book, religion, religious, christianity, christian, romanticism, colour, color engraving.

Aeddon meets Olwene, Karel Frederik Bombled, 1852 - 1902 print Aeddon meets Olwene on the banks of a river. Aeddon has two barking dogs with him and has dropped his spear. Olwene pushes a boat towards the bank. Illustration in the first singing of the epic praise Aeddon paper etching extinct, 'historical' peoples: Gauls (+ women). extinct, 'historical' peoples: Gauls (+ men). dog. river bank. poling, punting. tales and fairy tales (AEDDON)

BRINGING IN THE NEW YEAR

The Return to Life. Artist: George Bellows (American, Columbus, Ohio 1882-1925 New York). Dimensions: image: 18 x 14 1/2 in. (45.7 x 36.8 cm)sheet: 22 1/16 x 17 1/4 in. (56 x 43.8 cm). Printer: Printed by Bolton Brown (American, Dresden, New York 1864/65-1936 Woodstock, New York). Publisher: Published by George Bellows (American, Columbus, Ohio 1882-1925 New York). Date: 1923. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Musicing women under a tree, Henri Charles Guérard, After Camille Corot, 1856 - 1897 print paper etching / drypoint making music; musician with instrument. listening to music - CC - out of doors

Two figures on a boat at night, Philippus Velijn, after Gerrit Jan Michaëlis, 1797 - 1836 print Two figures, a boy with a reverse torch and a female figure looking up to heaven, on a boat at night. Netherlands paper etching / engraving night. rowing-boat, canoe, etc.. torch - BB - torch held upside down

'COMING HOME BY THE SHORTEST WAY' DRAWN BY J. GODWIN

Lithuanians from pre-Christian times. Przybylski, Maciej (Wilno ; zakład litograficzny ; fl. 1832-1837), lithography atelier, Smokowski, Wincenty (1797-1876), graphic artist

Chapter XII "The Animal Village," "A Huge Crab Crawled on the Sand Bar" Reginald Birch (American, born London, England, 1856-1943). 1940. Black ink with touches of white correction fluid on heavy wove paper, Sheet: 19 13/16 x 15 1/16 in. (50.3 x 38.3 cm). American Art 1940

La Fée des Alpes (2e planche) , Fictitious characters, Supernatural beings, Cliffs, Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856. Manfred. Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints

Juliusz Kossak (1824-1899), Frequently did a hunter maiden ride on a Samogitian horse among the party of shooters; excerpt from a magazine; excerpt from a magazine. Angerer, C. & Göschl (Wiedeń ; zakład graficzny i fotograficzny ; 1873-), reproduction atelier, unknown, publisher

Imprudence./scene 1st. (Title registered (letter)) | Wisdom and imprudence. (Title of all)

Macharius Jan Sadeler (1500-1600). Macharius. Burin, 17th century.

Olympus; Home of the gods in Greek mythology. Plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenère, Paris, 1615. Engraving circa 1615, by Leonard Gaultier. Gaultier, or Galter, was a French engraver, born at Mainz about 1561, and died in Paris in 1641.

L'arbre de salut , Bowing, Trees, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)

On the edge of the stream according to Rudolf EPPA. Sharpening from Niwy 1887, No. 26, p. 645 Schweigel, (n.n.)., Epp, Rudolf (1834 1910)

The Monk in the Cornfield. Rembrandt van Rijn; Dutch, 1606-1669. Date: 1641-1651. Dimensions: 47 x 66 mm (image/plate);51 x 69 mm (sheet). Etching with drypoint on ivory laid paper. Origin: Netherlands. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA. Author: REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN.

Hélène , Fictitious characters, Queens, Angels, Faust Legendary character, Mephistopheles Legendary character, Helen, of Troy, Queen of Sparta. Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints

Man meat home Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse (1859-1938), French painter and illustrator. Adam and Eve. Charcoal. 1886. Paris, Victor Hugo House.

Print, Title Page, "Cahier de Blançoires Chinoises"; Designed by Jean-Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728-1808); Print Maker: Jean-Jacques Avril the Elder (French, 1744 - 1831); France; etching on paper; 41.6 × 29.7 cm (16 3/8 × 11 11/16 in.)

Legros, Alphonse, work, Woodcutter and death, etching, graphics

Une femme donnant à manger à des porcs.. 1850. Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Swine, Animal feeding

Various species of freshwater fish, first part, Gardon (Robert-Dumesnil 452, Bartsch 38) Albert Flamen (1620-1674). Divases An EDECEM OF Be Winery. REMIRIER STA: LA Gardon (Robert-Dumesnil 452, Bareschini 38). Eau Dictionary forta, Xvie peiat.

Printemps. Félicien Victor Joseph Rops (Belgium, Namur, 1833-1898). Belgium, 1882. Prints; etchings. Etching

Umbach, Jonas, Augsburg, Landscape with a dead tree, verso lower right - stamped, Hilly landscape with a dead tree in the foreground. A hunter walks along the path with three dogs., print, engraving, prints, engravings, verso lower center - stamped, height 100 mm, width 151 mm, German, 1624 - 1693-04-28, print maker, printmaker, 1634 - 1693, second quarter 17th century, tweede kwart 17e eeuw, third quarter 17th century, derde kwart 17e eeuw, fourth quarter 17th century, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, after own design by

An 1891 sketchbook, 1891, by Petrus van der Velden. Gift of W. Fergusson Hogg, 1967.

After Hubert Robert, Fishermen Drawing Their Net, 1743-1900, pen and black ink, brush and gray and brown wash, over sketch in black chalk on paper.

Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746-1828). The Consequences (Las Resultas), 1810-1815, printed 1863. From The Disasters of War (Los Desastres de la Guerra). Etching and aquatint.

Etching and aquatint by Francisco José de Goya from 1815-1824, fourth edition 1902, depicting 'Funeral Nonsense/God I Breed Them and They Join' from 'The Proverbs (The Nonsense)', showing figures and allegorical funeral scenes.

Aristotle and Phyllis, master of the Amsterdam cabinet, 1483 - 1487 print Aristotle can be driven like a horse by Phyllis (story from the 13th century by Jacques de Vitry), King and Klerk watch. Germany paper drypoint Aristotle and Phyllis. dress, gown (+ women's clothes). head-gear: cap (+ women's clothes)

The Sepulchre, Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805-1881, British, active in Italy (1837-39), completed by Alfred Herbert Palmer, 1853-1931, British, between 1880 and 1883, Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 9 15/16 x 14 3/8 inches (25.3 x 36.5 cm), Plate: 5 3/16 x 7 5/16 inches (13.2 x 18.6 cm), and Image: 3 15/16 x 5 7/8 inches (10 x 15 cm), altar, dark, eclogues, figures, fire, flames, forest, grave, landscape, literary theme, moon, night, shadow, statue, tomb, trees

Jozientje and Willy view the Muizenstad, Willem Wenckebach, 1894 drawing Jozijk and Willy stand next to a mouse and look in a valley where the mouse city is located. The mice walk through the street on their hind legs. Design for 'De Muizenstad', the second chapter of the publication. paper. cardboard. India ink (ink). pencil. deck paint pen / brush city-view in general; 'veduta'. rodents: mouse

Water, Pieter van Avont, 1622 - 1652 print A naked boy leans against a tree and empties a jug with water and fish. Print from a series of four prints that represent the four elements. paper etching / engraving water (one of the four elements)

L'Eau est délicieuse... je t'assure... Dated: 1845. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.

The Chamber Idyll 1831 Edward Calvert British A pastoral love scene framed by the rustic structure of a cottage. Within a low room, a nude youth sits on the edge of a bed next to a standing woman who garment both remove. A bowl filled with fruit sits on the floor and a shepherd's crook leans at left while, at right there is a landscape with a star-filled sky and sheep and an ox standing near the cottage.. The Chamber Idyll 368043

Drawing, A woman with a distaff and a book; Italy; recto: graphite, brush and bistre on paper; verso: black crayon, graphite on paper; 16.5 × 23 cm (6 1/2 × 9 1/16 in.)

Homme allongé au pied d'un chàtaignier 1850-53 Charles Marville French Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Évrard pursued William Henry Fox Talbot's negative/positive experiments and by 1851 was confident enough to open a factory in the outskirts of Lille, in northern France, that cleared the way to mass-producing photographs in the same quantities as traditional prints. At last, photography could hope to succeed as both art and industry. A frequent collaborator of Blanquart-Évrard, Marville contributed more than one hundred photographs, mostly architectural views, to the publisher's many portfolios. This image is somewhat atypical of Marville's oeuvre. Its atmosphere of intimacy and nonchalance evokes the achievements of the wealthy amateur photographers of the time more than the severe architectural views usually associated with Marville. However, it was published in Blanquart-Évrard's album, Études photographiques (1853), the title of which suggests that such pictures were intended as studies fo

Oral satisfaction on a bench. Print maker: Peter van Straaten (signed by artist). Dating: c. 1984. Place: Amsterdam. Measurements: h 310 mm × w 228 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Tote Mutter, from the series Vom Tode Zweiter Teil. Artist: Max Klinger (German, Leipzig 1857-1920 Großjena). Dimensions: Plate: 17 15/16 × 13 3/4 in. (45.6 × 35 cm)Sheet: 21 15/16 × 15 7/8 in. (55.7 × 40.4 cm). Date: n.d.. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Figure under a fence. Kostrzewski, Franciszek (1826-1911), draughtsman, cartoonist

The Toads (Les crapauds). Dimensions: 39.1 cm x 28.9 cm, 25.7 cm x 21.8 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: ARMAND SEGUIN.

Sabrina's Silvery Flood 1821 William Blake British. Sabrina's Silvery Flood 383665 Artist: William Blake, British, London 17571827 London, Sabrina's Silvery Flood, from Thornton's Pastorals of Virgil, 1821, Wood engraving; second state, block: 1 1/4 x 2 7/8 in. (3.2 x 7.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931 (31.87.19)

Study of Three Old Gnarled Trees. Artist: Jan Siberechts (Flemish, Antwerp 1627-ca. 1703 London). Dimensions: sheet: 9 15/16 x 9 5/16 in. (25.2 x 23.7 cm). Date: 1660.With a delicate use of gray wash and watercolor, Siberechts details the irregular forms and rugged textures of three trunks, arrayed across the sheet. A Flemish landscape painter who specialized in rustic and pastoral scenes, he spent his later years in England working for aristocratic clients. From the date on this work, however, it would appear that it was executed in or around his native Antwerp. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Forest Interior. Dated: c. 1610. Dimensions: overall: 18.1 x 24.3 cm (7 1/8 x 9 9/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink and wash over graphite with white heightening on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Flemish 17th Century.

Adriaen Van Ostade (1610-1685). Le CHARCULTIER (BARTSCH 41). Eat, around 1652. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 79613-11 XVIIEM XVIIth XVII 17th 17th 17th century, engraving

Lost. Arthur F. Kales, photographer (American, 1881 - 1936) about 1917 (Verso, third mount) inscribed in black fountain pen ink, at upper left, by Kales: "LOST. / space / Arthur F. Kales. / space / Pittsburgh Salon space 1917 / London Salon space 1917 / Toronto Salon space 1917 / Bronze Medal space Yonkers space 1917."

Rusticula minor, The Snipe. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Albert Flamen.

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