Cleveland Museum of Art

Child, from On Death, Part I, Opus XI (Kind, Vom Tode, Erster Teil, Opus XI)

Max KlingerLinkedCulture matchlcp-18a1bea5947d

Date

1889

Medium

etching and aquatint

Culture

Germany, late 19th century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Object ID

113840

In this, the fifth in Klinger’s series On Death, Part One, death occurs in a seemingly peaceful landscape. In a large meadow bordered by woods, a nanny has fallen asleep upon a bench. Beside her is a baby carriage, beneath which lies fallen bedding. On a path in the distance, toward the darkness of the forest, Death leads the child away, dead as a result of its fall.

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