Antique Death

She moved with her family to Washington DC in 1876 when she was age fourteen and remained a resident of the city until her death in 1952. At the age of fifty, she married for the fi...

Essay: This drawing belongs to the long European tradition of the memento mori, an image intended to remind the viewer of the inevitability of death and the transience of earthly lif...

The business, located at 5 rue de Thorigny in Paris (the Salé Mansion, now the Picasso Museum), was continued by Madame Vian after her husband’s death in 1905.

Part of the first wave of Austrian Modernism, he was swept away by the Viennese fascination with the tension between Life and Death (known in the works of Freud and his later interpr...

Part of the first wave of Austrian Modernism, he was swept away by the Viennese fascination with the tension between Life and Death (known in the works of Freud and his later interpr...

Part of the first wave of Austrian Modernism, he was swept away by the Viennese fascination with the tension between Life and Death (known in the works of Freud and his later interpr...

These contrasting elements give the composition its particular appeal: the softly modeled body is framed by the disciplined geometry of the headdress and costume, creating a figure o...

Hellstern and Minnie Cosgrow of the renown Dreicer & Co. because the sudden death of the founder, shortly after his son’s death.

His campaigns helped maintain Sweden’s military position in the Holy Roman Empire following the death of Gustavus Adolphus in 1632. Particularly interesting is the date of this print.

As a further point of reference Mêne produced a catalogue of all his works and each of his models has an identifiable catalogue number. After Mêne’s death in 1879 the Barbedienne an...

Celebrated for his innovative approach to cameo glass, Gallé drew extensively upon botanical and natural forms, combining layered glass, acid etching and sophisticated colour effects...

Portrait of Pope Gregory XVI, head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 2 February 1831 to his death in 1846. This print originates from 'Histoire et Costumes de...

The date and place of Pietro Bossi’s death is not known. He may have married in Ireland; the christening of Maria Teresa Bossi, daughter of Peter and Sarah Bossi of Fleet Street, D...

Documentation: The drawing is documented in a photograph developed in December 1944, shortly after Thunman’s death. Essay: This finely observed landscape drawing by Olof Thunman de...

Her aunt was the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554), the nominal Queen of England for just nine days in 1553 during the tumultuous succession crisis following the death of King Edw...

The tomb represents the finality of physical death and earthly rest. The massive weeping willow draping over the tomb is a classic symbol of profound sorrow, tears, and grief.

He rent a modest workshop at 16, impasse du Maine in Paris in which he worked until his death. In 1893, Antoine Bourdelle entered the Auguste Rodin workshop as a practitioner and pa...

His work was repeatedly honored at the great international exhibitions, and his workshop operated from 10 rue Charlot, Paris, from 1867. After his death, the business continued under...

The work presented here is a variation on the official full-length portrait that the court painter Justus Sustermans (Antwerp, 1597 – Florence, 1681) painted around 1625–27, roughly ...

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1953, Zorach continued creating emotionally resonant works until his death in 1966, leaving a permanent mark on American modern...

Artist's Biography Harry Thompson was an influential English painter and art instructor who spent a major portion of his career in France before his death in London in 1901. Best kno...

Within a generation of his death, the capital stood empty, the cult of the Aten was suppressed, and much of its art was dismantled or effaced, which accounts for the scarcity of surv...

In 1867 Sormani moved his celebrated establishment to 10 rue Charlot, Paris. Following his death in 1877, the business continued under his widow and son, Paul-Charles Sormani.

He returned to Antwerp as director of the Academy, a post he held until his death in 1890, numbering Vincent van Gogh among his pupils.

He was active in the local art scene until his death in Los Angeles in 1938. Affiliations included the National Art Club, the Society of Western Artists, 1896-1914, and the Salmagun...

The firm continued to do business after the death of Pietro until at least 1865.

From about 1905 he loosened the regular dot without abandoning its founding principle — the primacy of colour as structure — and in 1910 he settled at Saint-Clair, near Le Lavandou o...

Maxime Maufra (French, 1861–1918), Le Bourg-d'Oisans, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 1904 — an Alpine landscape by a Post-Impressionist of the Pont-Aven circle, exhibit...

The coin is a tetradrachm struck for Lysimachos, one of Alexander's own bodyguards, who took Thrace after Alexander's death and ruled it from 305 to 281 BC. The obverse carries the h...

His heraldic coat of arms appears prominently below the portrait, flanked by two winged figures and extensive German biographical text recording important events in his life and his ...

Knut Heldner continued to paint until his death in New Orleans in 1952. Today, paintings by Knut Heldner are collected particularly for their connection with Louisiana, New Orleans a...

After 1649, however, the meaning of such copies altered. Charles’s death generated an extraordinarily powerful culture of commemoration.

By 1881, he had moved to 81 Riversdale Road, Islington living on the same road as his father until his death in 1884. After this time, he set up a studio at his home with his son Fre...

By 1881, he had moved to 81 Riversdale Road, Islington living on the same road as his father until his death in 1884. After this time, he set up a studio at his home with his son Fre...

Records were kept of the conversations between him, Paul Signac and Charles Camoin in St-Tropez, the area where he frequently stayed until his death and that he was so fond of painti...

In 1938, six years after the tragic death of his first wife, Bessie Chosak, from an infection following an abortion, Davis married Roselle Springer.

Excellent quality and condition circa 1650 scene of the Death of Leander as his body os brought to the shore as his lover Hero, witnessing his death, throws herself into the sea.

He collaborated with Tintoretto and, after the deaths of Titian and Tintoretto, Palma became the city's dominant artist, perpetuating its style.

The pathos of the figure rests instead on the bowed head and the exhaustion of the body to convey Christ after death. Raised on a later custom brass stand. Condition: Originality o...

Works made by his factory after his death, in 1904, are marked with a star after his signature.

At the sale of Tallard's collection in 1756, the vase was purchased for 5,001 livres by the marquis de Marigny, brother of Madame de Pompadour. Following the death of his sister, Mar...

Working in collaboration with the architects Percier and Fontaine, and the painter David, he made the furniture for the National Convention and the seats for the Committee of Public ...

A gifted and influential horological innovator, he worked in partnership with Jean-Baptiste Delettrez from 1851 until his death in 1878. The movement is of superb quality and is in e...

This print was published after Washington's death, to celebrate his importance as one of the founders of our great nation. 

His willingness to transform his house into a Museum "Musee Detaille" after his death did not occur even though he left everything to the state.

The hand wears a tiny buckle bracelet detailed in black enamel, another Victorian symbol that represents a bond so steadfast that not even death could loosen it. With gold, seed pear...

Rather than depicting death as violence or tragedy, Böcklin presents it as an inevitable and solemn passage into an unknown realm.

He combined attributes of both Greek and Egyptian gods, particularly Zeus and Osiris, embodying concepts of fertility, power, and life after death. His cult spread widely across the ...

Its finest period was the proprietorship of Johann Christoph Fehr, which lasted until his death in 1693. Frankfurt blue and white was painted with chinoiserie landscapes after the la...

In later years, William went into partnership with his son and traded as ‘Godwin & Co’, a name that would become reputable until long after William’s death in 1925.

In later years, William went into partnership with his son and traded as ‘Godwin & Co’, a name that would become reputable until long after William’s death in 1925.

In later years, William went into partnership with his son and traded as ‘Godwin & Co’, a name that would become reputable until long after William’s death in 1925. Additional Infor...

Immortalised at the moment of his martyrdom, following his death sentence imposed by Diocletian, the saint is depicted here with great realism: the scene, faithful to classical icono...

The subject of the work is set in Rome in 43 BC, at the time of the persecutions carried out by the Second Roman Triumvirate, led by Octavian (the future Augustus), Mark Antony and M...

Their subsequent love affair became inseparable from Nelson’s public legend. After his death at Trafalgar in 1805, it became public that his last appeal to the nation was to provide ...

Artwork is inscribed as signed by the artist's mother in 1933 (in reference to the artist's untimely early death at the age of 21 - see artist biography listed below) Frederic Valpe...

The upper specimen is a Death’s-head Hawk-moth type, immediately recognizable by the remarkable skull-like marking on its thorax.

Heldner remained active as a painter until his death in New Orleans in 1952. Today, Knut Heldner paintings are appreciated not only as evocative records of Louisiana and New Orleans ...

Following his military career, Ferdinand returned to Brunswick, where he devoted considerable attention to intellectual, cultural and philanthropic interests until his death in 1792....

Bedřich Fritta (19 September 1906, Višňová – 8 November 1944, Auschwitz) was a Czech-Jewish artist and cartoonist.[1] Life Fritta was born to a Jewish family in Višňová as Fritz Tau...