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A Painter Drawing from a Death's Head (Un Peintre dessinant d'après une tête de mort)
A Painter Drawing from a Death's Head (Un Peintre dessinant d'après une tête de mort)

A Painter Drawing from a Death's Head (Un Peintre dessinant d'après une tête de mort)

Artist (French, 1789-1862/3)
CultureFrench
Date1824
MediumLithograph on brown-toned paper, heightened with white
Classificationsprints
Credit LineThe William A. Whitaker Foundation Art Fund
Object number2014.19.8
DescriptionAn artist is seated in semi-darkness with a sketchbook on his knee; a skull is drawn on the visible page; he contemplates the skull from which he has been drawing. The caption below the image reads: "A painter drawing a death's-head put the following questions to it, and in his reverie it seemed to him that it replied to them." A translation of the poem that follows is attached(see text extries).
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