Der Tod als Freund (Death as a Friend)

1831

Alfred Rethel

Associated Names
Alfred Rethel

Artist, German, 1816 - 1859

Hugo Bürkner

Publisher, German, 1818 - 1897

Hermann Michels

Publisher, German, active late 19th century

Breitkopf und Härtel

Printer

This is a black and white illustration featuring a hooded figure dressed in long robes standing next to an elderly individual seated in an ornate chair. The setting is a room with large windows showing a landscape with the sun.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving on brown wove paper [third edition]

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 30 × 27 cm (11 13/16 × 10 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 41.9 × 24.9 cm (16 1/2 × 9 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.103.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Manteuffel 1926, no. 25, State ii(c)/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Friedrich Gypen's Kunstverlag, Munich) (not in Lugt). (Susan Schulman Printseller LLC, New York); purchased 2015 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1926

  • Manteuffel, Kurt Zoege von. Alfred Rethel ... mit einem ... kritischen Verzeichnis der Bilddrucke. Hamburg, 1926: no.25, ii(c)/ii

Inscriptions

lower center in image: J. JUNGTOW; lower right in image: AR; lower center below image: Der Tod als Freund.; lower left below image: Herausgegeben aus der Akademie der Holzschneidekunst von H. Bürkner / in Dresden.; lower right below image: Erschienen bei Hermann Michels, Buch= und Kunstverlag / in Düsseldorf.; lower center below image: Druck von Breitkopf und Härtel in Leipzig

Wikidata ID

Q77015725

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