depicts: death

instance of: painting (99) | sculpture (3) | triptych (2) | drawing (2) | statue (2) | statuette (2) | fresco (2) | photograph (1) | hanging scroll (1) | study (1) | sketch (1) | print (1) | sculpture capital (1) | etching (1) | oil painting (1)

commissioned by: Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1) | Laerzio Cherubini (1) | Pierre Polet (1)

owned by: Birmingham Museum of Art (2) | France (1) | Louis XIV of France (1) | Charles I of England (1) | art dealer (1) | Mauritshuis (1) | Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1) | Vincenzo Gonzaga (1) | Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer (1) | Henri d'Orleans, Duke of Aumale (1) | Robert Boulin (1) | Art Museum of Estonia (1) | Francesco da Sangallo (1) | Dordrechts Museum (1) | Frédéric Reiset (1) | A. Alfred Taubman (1) | Onofre Garí i Torrent (1) | Patrick Weiller (1)

movement: Romanticism (6) | academic art (5) | expressionism (2) | Symbolism (2) | Art Nouveau (1) | Baroque (1) | Romanesque art (1) | rococo (1) | Flemish Primitives (1) | Gothic painting (1) | Proto-Renaissance (1) | Early Renaissance (1) | Renaissance art (1) | New Sculpture (1)

genre: history painting (17) | allegory (15) | mythological painting (15) | religious art (14) | genre art (8) | nude (7) | battle painting (4) | catafalque portrait (4) | portrait (3) | military art (3) | interior view (3) | still life (2) | landscape art (2) | portrait at bust length (1) | miniature (1) | vanitas (1) | group portrait (1) | figurative art (1)

based on: Greek mythology (1) | Dance of the Death (Lübeck) (1) | The Prisoner of Chillon (1) | Hero mourns the dead Leander (1) | The Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia (1)

artist: anonymous (8) | Gustave Moreau (4) | Francisco Goya (2) | Peter Paul Rubens (2) | Eugène Delacroix (2) | Nicolas Poussin (2) | Horace Vernet (2) | John Martin (2) | Charles-Philippe Larivière (2) | Jean Alaux (2) | Charles Cottet (2) | Giotto di Bondone (1) | Annibale Carracci (1) | Edvard Munch (1) | Caravaggio (1) | Paul Klee (1) | Laurent de La Hyre (1) | Hans Memling (1)

material used: oil paint (90) | canvas (71) | wood (7) | marble (4) | tempera (4) | paper (3) | ink (2) | plaster (2) | poplar wood (2) | panel (2) | canvas (2) | silver (1) | tin (1) | stone (1) | alabaster (1) | paint (1) | onyx (1) | lapis lazuli (1)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (21) | Museum of the History of France (13) | Musée des Augustins (6) | Musée d'Orsay (4) | Department of Sculptures of the Louvre (4) | National Museum in Warsaw (3) | Statens Museum for Kunst (3) | Birmingham Museum of Art (3) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (3) | Musée Gustave-Moreau (3) | Collection of paintings of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (3) | Kunstmuseum Basel (2) | private collection (2) | Condé Museum (2) | Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg (2) | Dordrechts Museum (2) | Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes (2) | Yale Center for British Art (2)

location: Galerie des Batailles (6) | Musée des Augustins (4) | Musée d'Orsay (3) | Statens Museum for Kunst (3) | Birmingham Museum of Art (3) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (3) | Musée Gustave-Moreau (3) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (3) | Kunstmuseum Basel (2) | museum's storage space (2) | Condé Museum (2) | Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg (2) | Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes (2) | Museum of the History of France (2) | Yale Center for British Art (2) | Room 800 (2) | Room 219 (2) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (1)

part of: Black Paintings (1) | Marie de' Medici cycle (1) | Scenes from the Life of Saint Jerome (1) | Cycle of the Life of the Christ (1) | None (1) | Saint Cecilia Cycle (1)

country of origin: United States of America (4) | France (3) | Spain (1) | Italy (1) | United Kingdom (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1839 (3) | Salon of 1837 (3) | Salon of 1808 (2) | Salon of 1806 (2) | L'invention du passé. Histoires de cœur et d'épée en Europe, 1802-1850 (2) | Europeana 280 (2) | Basel Historical Museum (1) | International Exposition 1867 (1) | Salon of 1831 (1) | Dominique-Vivant Denon: l'oeil de Napoléon (1) | Salon of 1865 (1) | Salon of 1785 (1) | Salon of 1814 (1) | Salon of 1846 (1) | Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges (1) | Salon of 1866 (1) | Salon of 1827 (1) | Salon of 1845 (1)

main subject: danse macabre (2) | love (1) | Salvator Mundi (1) | Scholastica (1) | Memento mori (1) | massacre of the Innocents (1) | Death of the Virgin Mary (1) | Day of Judgment (1) | Spanish-style bullfighting (1) | Genesis flood narrative (1) | Saint Sebastian tended by Saint Irene (1) | martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (1) | martyrdom of Saint Cecilia (1)

donated by: Onofre Garí i Torrent (1)

location of final assembly: France (2) | United States of America (1) | Basel (1) | Rome (1) | Padua (1)

fabrication method: fresco painting (2) | ink wash painting (1)