Cupid, Death, and the Next World, plate twelve from Intermezzos

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Cupid, Death, and the Next World, plate twelve from Intermezzos, 1881. Etching on paper.

Etching on paper · Image: 15.7 × 41.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago

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Museum title: Cupid, Death, and the Next World, plate twelve from Intermezzos
Artist: Max Klinger German, 1857-1920
Date: 1881
Medium: Etching on paper
Dimensions: Image: 15.7 × 41.2 cm (6 3/16 × 16 1/4 in.); Chine: 19.2 × 42 cm (7 9/16 × 16 9/16 in.); Plate: 20 × 42.8 cm (7 7/8 × 16 7/8 in.); Sheet: 45 × 63.7 cm (17 3/4 × 25 1/8 in.)
Credit line: Gift of Simon Lowinsky and Nikki Arai
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Art Institute of Chicago

Artist’s life 1857–1920

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.