Art, literature & history
Dance of Death I
1562
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet (cut to platemark): 8.7 x 6.5 cm (3 7/16 x 2 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2002.157.8
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Allaert Claesz. Dance of Death I. Allaert Claesz; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Allaert_Claesz,_Dance_of_Death_I,_1562,_NGA_126954.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Dance of Death I — Allaert Claesz. 1562.
Medium: engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (cut to platemark): 8.7 x 6.5 cm (3 7/16 x 2 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2002.157.8. Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.