Lot 2196 Dα

Anton Sohn

Clay Figures after the Zizenhausen Danse Macabre

Flattened to the reverse, with original polychromy. Twenty-one figures from the fourty-two figure series first modelled in 1822. The figures follow the prints by Matthäus Merian the Elder first published in 1623 after the frescoes of the cemetary walls of the Dominican Abbey in Basel. Alongside the Fall of Man with Adam and Eve and the House of Bones, this series also includes the figures of death dancing with the pope, the emperor, the empress, a cardinal, a duke, duchess, knight, councillor, canon, doctor, cripple, youth, piper, executioner, chandler, jew, heathen man, heathen woman, and peasant. The plinths bear glued on paper inscriptions with the accompanying texts.
Minimal wear and glued repairs. Height 13-15 cm.