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Somber Art Prints

Somber art prints: dark, serious paintings and prints of death, war, mourning and suffering. The largest groups are Jacques Callot's etching series The Large Miseries of War (1633) and Max Klinger's etching cycle On Death (1889 to 1898). The collection also includes Arnold Böcklin's The Isle of the Dead, Alfred Kubin, Gustave Moreau's Pietà, Jean-Léon Gérôme's The Death of Caesar and The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer, etchings by Félicien Rops, Victor Hugo's The Hanged Man, Francisco de Goya's Pilgrimage to the Fountain of San Isidro, Akseli Gallen-Kallela's Finnish Kalevala paintings, and 17th-century memento mori engravings by Hendrick Hondius and Nicolaes de Bruyn.

The selection treats death and suffering seriously, through series and memento mori images.

The black-and-white etchings suit studies, libraries and hallways, hung as a series; the Böcklin and Gérôme paintings work as one large piece. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.

Åse's Death, from Peer Gynt — Edvard Grieg
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Alfred Kubin — Man | Symbolist Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
Arnold Böcklin — The Isle of the Dead | Symbolist Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
Voina (War) – Frontispice pour Voina (Guerre) by Olga Rozanova — A condemned figure digs beside a block of hand-cut Cyrillic capitals
L’Empereur Lothaire et le pape Innocent by Alphonse Mucha — Two hooded men in black walk through a crowd of bishops and onlookers
De hulpverlening tijdens de watersnood van 1926, symbolisch voorgesteld by Jan Toorop — A crowned woman in white reaches down to a kneeling woman
Hamlet: Asta Nielsen (1921) — A cloaked figure holds a dagger at arm's length
Ostatni Etap (1948) by Tadeusz Trepkowski — A red bloom hangs from a bent stem against grey-blue stripes
Bitwa Stalingradzka (1950) by Tadeusz Trepkowski — A ruined tower with black windows and a red flag above a burnt city
Slaughtered Pig in a Barn by Adriaen van Ostade — A pig carcass hangs in a shaft of light in a dark barn
The Last Stand by Frederic Remington — Riflemen kneel in the grass as a man is carried across the plain
The Herd Boy by Frederic Remington — A lone rider on a gaunt horse crosses a snowbound plain
Dying Buffalo, Shot with an Arrow by George Catlin — A bison lies on the prairie grass, an arrow in its side
La Légende de Joseph [The Legend of Joseph] by Charles Martin — Two kneeling figures on a chequered floor beneath a great stone wall
Le Dernier Carrosse [The last carriage] by Bernard Boutet de Monvel — A black-draped carriage waits beneath the columns of a vast portico
The First Mourning by William-Adolphe Bouguereau — A bearded man and a kneeling woman grieve over a limp body
All Souls' Day by William-Adolphe Bouguereau — Two women in black mourn at a stone cross, one laying a wreath
The Holy Women at the Tomb by William-Adolphe Bouguereau — Three women in dark veils at an open tomb, an angel in the light
Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill by Pieter Claesz — A skull, a quill and a snuffed lamp on a bare table
The Arrest of Sisamnes by Gerard David — A king confronts a seated judge before a crowd of courtiers
Portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati by Jan van Eyck — An older man in a red cardinal's robe turns his gaze aside
Portrait of a Man by Dieric Bouts — A man in a plum cap prays, his eyes turned to the side
Portrait of a Fat Man by Robert Campin — A heavy-set man in a fur collar gazes past the viewer
Vanitas Still Life by Pieter Claesz — A skull, a pocket watch and an overturned glass on a green cloth
A Vanitas Still-Life with a Skull, a Book and Roses by Jan Davidsz. de Heem — A skull, a book, a glass of wine and two roses on a dark ledge
Death of the Virgin by Hugo van der Goes — The apostles gather around the Virgin's bed as Christ appears above
The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster by Gerard ter Borch — Delegates raise their fingers to swear a treaty oath
The Last Drop (The Gay Cavalier) by Judith Leyster — A skeleton and an hourglass watch two men drink
The Unwelcome News by Gerard ter Borch — A messenger in a blue-and-gold coat delivers a letter to an officer
The Reconciliation of the Montagues and the Capulets by Frederic Leighton — Two old fathers clasp hands over the bodies of Romeo and Juliet
The Feigned Death of Juliet by Frederic Leighton — Mourners gather at Juliet's bed as an old man reaches toward her
Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon by Frederic Leighton — A grieving woman in black robes stands at a white fluted column
The Egyptian Widow by Lawrence Alma-Tadema — A widow bows over a painted mummy case as priests sing beside it
The Death of the Pharaoh's Firstborn Son by Lawrence Alma-Tadema — A grieving pharaoh sits in lamplight with his son across his lap
The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer by Jean-Léon Gérôme — A lion steps into the arena as kneeling Christians pray together
The Death of Caesar by Jean-Léon Gérôme — Senators lift their daggers and leave the fallen body behind
Pietà by Gustave Moreau — The Virgin bends over Christ's body in a dark rocky grotto
The Large Miseries of War: The Hanging by Jacques Callot — A great tree hung with men above an army camp
The Large Miseries of War: The Firing Squad by Jacques Callot — Musketeers fire on a man bound to a post before the camp
The Large Miseries of War: Pillaging by Jacques Callot — Soldiers ransack a farmhouse kitchen by firelight
The Large Miseries of War: The Beggars and the Dying by Jacques Callot — Beggars fill a village street as a dying man lies by a haystack
Caesar and his Prisoners by Rodolphe Bresdin — A mounted commander halts before a line of captives in a vast army
The Large Miseries of War: Execution on the Wheel by Jacques Callot — On a high scaffold a man is broken on the wheel before massed troops
The Large Miseries of War: Burning at the Stake by Jacques Callot — A man is bound to a stake in a blazing pyre before ranks of soldiers
The Large Miseries of War: Peasant's Revenge by Jacques Callot — Villagers ambush soldiers in a wood and strip the fallen
The Large Miseries of War: Devastation of a Monastery by Jacques Callot — Soldiers strip a burning church and load its chests onto a cart
The Large Miseries of War: The Hospital by Jacques Callot — Crippled soldiers on crutches gather outside a domed church
The Large Miseries of War: The Strappado by Jacques Callot — Ranks of soldiers watch a man hoisted high on a punishment scaffold
The Large Miseries of War: Pillaging and Burning of a Village by Jacques Callot — Soldiers sack a burning village, driving off its carts and flocks