Skeletons and a bisected woman, by García Hidalgo (1691, c.)

Skeletons and a bisected woman, by García Hidalgo (1691, c.)

The engraving presents a triad man on the left holding a scythe, a woman in the center and a neutral skeleton on the right. The engraving represents death that implies a form of evolutive narrative or transformation. The woman is also represented as a vanitas figure, as she appears as a hybrid being between flesh and death, man and death.

García Hidalgo, José (1646-1717)

Etching from Principios para estudiar el Nobilísimo y Real arte de la Pintura by García Hidalgo (1693)
Found in the MET museum, New York
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/720599

Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20201111164052/https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/720599

Accession number: 1977.528.2

Wellcome Library:
https://search.wellcomelibrary.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1190091?lang=eng

Copy photo number: V 7794
System number: b1190091x
Wellcome Library no. 32253i

Wellcome Collection:
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/sg9m7eym

Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20201111162625if_/https://wellcomecollection.org/works/sg9m7eym

1691, c.

Etching with graphite.
Dimensions: 16.4 × 20.2 cm