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The Poor: The Waiting Room of Death, 1888. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 131 × 184.5 cm · SMK – National Gallery of Denmark · Realism · Symbolism
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- Museum title
- The Poor: The Waiting Room of Death
- Artist
- Harald Slott-Møller (Danish, 1864–1937)
- Date
- 1888
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 131 × 184.5 cm
- Credit line
- SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
- Image license
- Public Domain Mark 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.