Woman and Death, by Brun (1590, c.)

Woman and Death, by Brun (1590, c.)

This engraving represents a young woman and a skeleton holding her arm and showing her an hourglass. Although the Latin inscription mentions that death abolishes all beauty in any man, the victim is a female taken away by a skeleton that is neuter or male, as if implying the loss of sexual markers as part of that abolition of beauty.

Brun, Franz (active 1590, c.)

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, US.
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.5286.html

Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190822134709/https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.5286.html

Accession Number: 1943.3.2125

1590, c.

Engraving.
Dimensions: Unknown