An Audience with Death

• Death Holding Forth to a Group of People and a Dog
• An Audience with Death

RP-P-OB-12.248

collector's mark: Lugt 2228

A group of young and old people has happened upon Death, as if by accident. Is Death reading to them from the book he holds? His audience seems slightly startled rather than shocked. Only the dog appears to grasp the gravity of the situation: its hackles are raised in fear.

Rizzi 36

• print maker: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (mentioned on object), Italy
• after own design by: after design of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

in or before c. 1735

ets

height 141 mm x width 176 mm

Prent uit serie van tien prenten met Capricci.

Public domain

• Rizzi 36
• De Vesme 10
• Jaco Rutgers, ‘The dating of Tiepolo’s Capricci and Scherzi’, Print Quarterly 23 (2006) 3, pp. 254-263

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200124117