Memento Mori, "To This Favour"

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Memento Mori, "To This Favour", 1879. oil on canvas.

oil on canvas · Framed: 77.9 x 98.4 x 8.6 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art

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Museum title: Memento Mori, "To This Favour"
Artist: William Michael Harnett (American, 1848–1892)
Date: 1879
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: Framed: 77.9 x 98.4 x 8.6 cm (30 11/16 x 38 3/4 x 3 3/8 in.); Unframed: 61.3 x 81.5 cm (24 1/8 x 32 1/16 in.)
Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Cleveland Museum of Art

Artist’s life 1848–1892

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