Holbein, Hans II ; Hollar, Wenzel

Holbein, Hans II ; Hollar, Wenzel

HOLBEIN II, Hans (after) Noblemen fighting with Death. 2nd half 17th c Pencil, 11,3 x 18 cm, laid paper (trimmed at edges). Under passe-partout. 2 drawings on 1 sheet with men fighting the allegorical figure of Death. While the first fighting couple is modelled after Holbein's original woodcut "The nobleman and Death" from his "Danse Macabre" series (1526), the second is copied after Wenzel Hollar's (1607-1677) reinterpretation of the print series, as published in 1646.