La Comédie de la Mort (The Comedy of Death)

1899

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: Mount: 15 3/16 × 11 5/16 in. (38.6 × 28.8 cm) Sheet: 8 3/8 × 5 7/8 in. (21.3 × 14.9 cm)
Collection no.: 52.508.23
Attribution: By the artist

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

La Comédie de la Mort (The Comedy of Death) — Rodolphe Bresdin. 1899.

Medium: Lithograph. Dimensions: Mount: 15 3/16 × 11 5/16 in. (38.6 × 28.8 cm) Sheet: 8 3/8 × 5 7/8 in. (21.3 × 14.9 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: The J. B. Neumann Collection, Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, 1952.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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