Death Surprising a Young Couple
A sumptuously attired couple enjoy food, drink, and luxury objects. Death appears behind them, holding a winged hourglass as a warning about the brevity of life. The withered flowers on the ground, too, symbolize transience. Young couples overtaken by Death was a popular theme in the 16th and 17th century, when life was shorter and death always around the corner.
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Death Surprising a Young Couple
A sumptuously attired couple enjoy food, drink, and luxury objects. Death appears behind them, holding a winged hourglass as a warning about the brevity of life. The withered flowers on the ground, too, symbolize transience. Young couples overtaken by Death was a popular theme in the 16th and 17th century, when life was shorter and death always around the corner.
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A sumptuously attired couple e ...... eath always around the corner.
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Een rijk gekleed paar geniet v ...... chter bij elkaar lagen dan nu.
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RP-P-OB-15.311
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Rijksmuseum
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De Dood verrast een jong paar
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Death Surprising a Young Couple
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c. 1610 - c. 1650
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ca. 1610 - ca. 1650
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blad breedte 152 mm
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blad hoogte 194 mm
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height 194 mm
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width 152 mm
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Collectie: prenten
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Collection: prints
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Franken&van der Kellen 115
Hollstein Dutch 154