Death Taking a Couple by Surprise, by van de Velde II (1640, c.)

Death Taking a Couple by Surprise, by van de Velde II (1640, c.)

This image represents a couple (man and woman) sitting on a table and drinking. A skeleton without any sex or gender traits appears on the right. This is another example of death as the third member of the couple, or one death for both genders.

van de Velde II, Jan (1593-1641)

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, US.
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.10734.html

Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20201026020226/https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.10734.html

Accession Number: 1943.3.8238

1640, c.

Etching.
Dimensions: Unknown