A young nun is kneeling before an altar in a bedroom but she looks around at a young man seated on the bed playing a lute. Death reaches toward the altar to extinguish the candle flame.
Credit: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
1651
Etching; second state of four
7.5 x 5.5cm
51.501.2126
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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