1782
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Tomb with Death Standing is a 1782 ink by Louis Jean Desprez, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This image shows a tomb scene with a figure standing inside a half-circle arch. The figure wears a long robe and a winged hat, holding what looks like a staff. Two dogs sit on either side of a stone base, facing the figure. The tomb’s front is carved with symbols and text. The winged hat and staff suggest the figure might be a guardian or a godlike presence. The dogs seem calm, as if waiting or watching. Next, look up etching, drypoint, aquatint to see how this print was made.
Louis Jean Desprez was a French painter and architect who worked in Sweden during the last twenty years of his life.
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