Death Appearing to a Wedded Couple from an Open Grave, by van Rijn (1639)

Death Appearing to a Wedded Couple from an Open Grave, by van Rijn (1639)

This engraving represents a young couple (man and woman) that are faced with a skeleton representing death. The skeleton is wrapped with a shroud. It is thus representative of one death for both genders.
The fact that the engraving represents a married couple is emphasized, as if death were the third member of the family, or a couple of three.

van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmenszoon (1606-1669)

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, US.
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.9992.html

Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20201029204525/https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.9992.html

Accession Number: 1943.3.7196

1639

Etching.
Dimensions: Unknown