A woman personifying anatomy looks searchingly into the light emanating from a corpse, but she is mortally threatened by the scythe of Time; representing anatomy's struggle with decay
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Title
A woman personifying anatomy looks searchingly into the light emanating from a corpse, but she is mortally threatened by the scythe of Time; representing anatomy's struggle with decay
Description
1 print : line engraving ; platemark 46.4 x 27.4 cm
Creator
Engraving by N-G. Dupuis, 1759, after J-B-M. Pierre.
Source
Wellcome
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/qjdn9f8k
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/qjdn9f8k
Publisher
Paris
Date
1759
Relation
References note
Not found in: Marcel Roux and Edmond Pognon, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, Paris 1955, tome VIII (inventory of prints by N.-G. Dupuis)
G. Wolf-Heidegger & A.M. Cetto, Die anatomische Sektion in bildlicher Darstellung, Basel, 1967, no. 231
Not found in: Marcel Roux and Edmond Pognon, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, Paris 1955, tome VIII (inventory of prints by N.-G. Dupuis)
G. Wolf-Heidegger & A.M. Cetto, Die anatomische Sektion in bildlicher Darstellung, Basel, 1967, no. 231
Citation
Engraving by N-G. Dupuis, 1759, after J-B-M. Pierre.
, “A woman personifying anatomy looks searchingly into the light emanating from a corpse, but she is mortally threatened by the scythe of Time; representing anatomy's struggle with decay,” European Mastectomy, accessed May 24, 2026, https://www.european-mastectomy.artinterp.org/items/show/421.