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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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Citizens! Your Duty Is to Remember the Homeless Children and Help Them — A robed figure shelters two children amid rows of small ads
He Sat There until the Sun Went Down, from The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by N. C. Wyeth — A young soldier keeps a bowed vigil at a bedside in a log cabin
Sheep Herder by N. C. Wyeth — A hooded herder shields his face as his flock drifts through a storm
There fell a long silence through which O’Hara read and Kenyon kept watch at the window by N. C. Wyeth — One man reads the paper while another watches at a
The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton by Thomas Eakins — A man in a dark overcoat stands lost in thought
A Scene of Execution by Maynard Dixon — A young man in profile, two bodies hanging beyond his shoulder
Design for a Vignette: Steunt De Nieuwe Amsterdammer by Richard Roland Holst — A calling bird above a skeleton, ringed by block lettering
Design for an Ex Libris for Joyce Haworth by Richard Roland Holst — A gaunt figure shelters a child inside a lettered medallion
Man Wading Through Water with a Skeleton on His Back by Johannes Josephus Aarts — A wading man carries a skeletal figure clinging to his back
Self-portrait with Skeleton by Lovis Corinth — A painter poses beside a hanging skeleton at his studio window
American Gothic by Grant Wood — A stern couple stand before a white farmhouse, pitchfork in hand
The Penitent Magdalene by Georges de La Tour — A woman rests her folded hands on a skull by candlelight
The Triumph of Death by Pieter Bruegel the Elder — An army of skeletons overruns a scorched, fleeing crowd
Memento Mori by Julie de Graag — A skull stares straight out above its own lettered warning
Misery upon Misery by Marcel Roux — A cloaked woman glances back on a stone stairway
The 20th Century by Fritz Gareis — A skull-headed monument looms over a blood-red pool
Alcohol by Marcel Roux — A woman flings her arms wide beside a shadow figure
Death and the Gravedigger by Carlos Schwabe — A winged figure kneels above a grave as a gravedigger gazes up
Aartsvader [Patriarch] by Henri van der Stok — A stern-faced patriarch leans on a staff before a camp of tents
Prisoners Exercising (after Doré) by Vincent van Gogh — Prisoners circle a high stone courtyard under guard
The Dead Toreador by Édouard Manet — A fallen bullfighter in black lies still on a bare floor
Suhrab Slain by Rustam by Shahnameh (Firdausi) — A white-bearded warrior grieves over his wounded son
Kanadehon Chūshingura, Act 4: Seppuku of Lord En'ya by Utagawa Kuniyoshi — A lord kneels with a dagger as his retainers look on
Joaquín Sorolla — White Slave Trade (Trata de blancas) | Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
John Singer Sargent — Gassed | Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
John Singer Sargent — Portrait of Woodrow Wilson | Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustav Klimt — Blind Man | Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustav Klimt — Josef Lewinsky as Carlos in Clavigo | Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustav Klimt — Old Man on his Deathbed (Alter Mann auf dem Totenbett) | Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustav Klimt — Tragedy (Tragödie) | Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustav Klimt — Mother with Two Children (Family) | Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustave Doré — Ecce Homo | Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustave Doré — A Rider and a Dead Horse in a Landscape | Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustave Doré — Purgatorio, Canto VII: Sordello's Reply | Dante Illustration Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustave Doré — Purgatorio, Canto V: Buonconte's Last Prayer | Dante Illustration Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustave Doré — Purgatorio, Canto III: Virgil Explores the Pathway | Dante Illustration Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustave Doré — Tom Thumb: The Woodcutter and His Wife | Fairy Tale Illustration Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustave Doré — The Breaking Ice, Souvenir of Norway | Lithograph Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustave Doré — The Vale of Tears (La Vallée des larmes) | Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustave Doré — Crucifixion Scene in a Storm-lit Town | Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustave Doré — Street of the Old Lantern (Death of Gérard de Nerval) | Lithograph Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustave Doré — Rome in Flames | Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustave Doré — Shall be lifted — nevermore! | Gothic Illustration Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustave Doré — On this home by Horror haunted | Gothic Illustration Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustave Doré — Upon the velvet sinking | Gothic Illustration Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustave Doré — Wandering from the Nightly shore | Gothic Illustration Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustave Doré — Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before | Gothic Illustration Print - 9ArtPrints
Gustave Doré — Sorrow for the lost Lenore | Gothic Illustration Print - 9ArtPrints