A man dying in a Swiss chalet, his wife holding his hand and looking at their child. Lithograph by J.F. Hasler, 1862, after A. de Meuron.

  • Meuron, Albert de, 1823-1897.
Date:
1862
Reference:
643613i
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Description

Right, a bedside chair on which are the dying man's clothes and a medicine bottle. On the back wall, a gun and other hunting equipment, and a print of the Holy Family. Left, the child in a cradle: the cradle is carved with the date 1730

Publication/Creation

Baden (Aargau, Switzerland) : Herausgegeben v. F. Hasler, 1862 (Mun̈chen [Munich] : Gedr. b. Hanfstaengl)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph ; en chine 32.4 x 37.3 cm

Lettering

Der sterbende Gatte. Vereinsblatt des Bernischen Kunstvereins pro 1862. Gemalt von Albert Meuron. Auf Stein gez. u. herausgegeben v. F. Hasler in Baden.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 643613i

Reproduction note

Presumably after: painting "L'époux mourant", said by Bénézit to be in Berne Museum (E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintres, Paris 1999, vol. 9, p. 553)

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