Sujet

The Death of Pierrot, from The Savoy No. 6, 1896. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley.

Légende

The Death of Pierrot, from The Savoy No. 6, 1896. Characters from the Commedia dell'Arte tiptoe towards the dying Pierrot, an alllusion to Beardsley's own death from tuberculosis less than two years later. Published in "The Best of Beardsley" edited by R. A. Walker, [The Bodley Head, London, 1948]

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Amanda Waite

Notre référence

HRM22A17_420

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

49,6Mo (2,4Mo) / 29,3cm x 42,4cm / 3462 x 5003 (300dpi)

Mots clés

female women Leonard Smithers Leonard Charles Smithers Leonard Charles The Savoy woman people male man men health arts playhouse art book guy theatre magazine British design harlequin death dying illness century Art Nouveau gesturing Britain sickness sick ill literature whispering concept whisper B&W hand gesture tiptoe columbine tiptoeing pierrot publishing hand Gestures 19th century graphic design black & white black and white B W nineteenth century Commedia dell'Arte deathbed sickbed illustration satire Walker Aubrey Beardsley Aubrey Vincent Beardsley Smithers publishing house Beardsley Aubrey Beardsley Aubrey Vincent Arlecchino Bodley Head Shirley Markham Leonard Theatre Italien R. A. Walker R. A. Rainforth Armitage Walker Rainforth Armitage 19th-century Decadent movement