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Pieter Schenck and Frans Francken II

Death Fiddling Before a Miser

1689

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Death Fiddling Before a Miser

Pieter Schenck and Frans Francken II

Death Fiddling Before a Miser

Death Fiddling Before a Miser

1689

Physical Qualities Mezzotint, Sheet: 258 x 194 mm. (25.8 x 19.4 cm.) Plate: 251 x 186 mm. (25.1 x 18.6 cm.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.2589
Death (skeleton) fiddling before a miser seated by a table in a vaulted room
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c).

Signed: 1

Inscribed: RECTO: in matrix: LWRC: 'DOOD MORTIS INGRATA MUSICA RYKAARD./ ...Tvoeteusel...Pet: Schenck Fec. cum Privil Amstel'; VERSO: LL: {Claghorn stamp and Garrett stamp] (graphite in diamond): '6533'

Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett

Artist

Pieter Schenck
Dutch, born Germany, 1660-1718/19
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Artist

Frans Francken II
Flemish, 1581-1642
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GAUDEMUS, QUI TE PRÆSENTE
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All Conquering Death
1609
THE COUNT OF RENNEBERG BESIEGED THE TOWN OF STEENWYK IN VAIN
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JOHN CALVIN
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John Calvin
1679
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High Street from the Country Market Place, Philadelphia, with the Commemoration of the Death of General Washington
2000