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Currently not on display

Hans Holbein the Younger

Augsburg, 1497/98 - London, 1543

<Die Bilder des Todes>: Coat of Arms of Death (Die Wapen deß Thotß)

Date 1525-26
Materials and Techniques woodcut
Size(cm) 6.5 x 4.9 (image); 7.2 x 5.1 (paper)
Standard ref. Hollstein, vol. 14A, no. 99-41
Category Prints
Collection Number G.2000-0051

Provenance

Purchased by the NMWA, 2000.

Exhibition History

2011
Fantastic Nature: Northern Prints before Rembrandt, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 12 March 2011 - 12 June 2011, cat. no. 42
2022
The Illumination of Life by Death: Memento Mori & Photography, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 17 June 2022 - 25 September 2000, repr.

Bibliography

1960
Die Malerfamilie Holbein in Basel (exh. cat.). Kunstmuseum Basel, 4 June - 25 September 1960. Basel, Werner & Bischoff, 1960, cat. no. 418, 41
1983
Petersmann, Frank. Kirchen- und Sozialkritik in den Bildern des Todes von Hans Holbein d. J. Bielefeld, Bechauf, 1983, p. 130 ff.
1997
Hans Holbein d. J.: die Druckgraphik im Kupferstichkabinett Basel (exh. cat.). Müller, Christian, ed. Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, 14 May - 7 September 1997. Basel, Schwabe & Co., 1997, cat. no. 105-41
2002
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 35 (Apr. 2000-Mar. 2001), 2002, List of New Acquisitions. p. 37.
2022
The Illumination of Life by Death: Memento Mori & Photography (exh. cat.). Hamasaki, Kaori, ed. Tokyo, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum operated by Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, 2022, pp. 25, 168, repr.

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