Carlos Schwabe
Swiss, 1866 - 1926
The Death of the Grave-Digger
Date: 1895-1900
Courtesy: Musée du Louvre
The angel of death, whose long green wings are shaped like scythes, has just alighted like a great bird on the edge of a grave being dug by an old man in a snowy cemetery. The artist has used the entire Symbolist repertory of signs and plants.
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