Old man Noblewoman

 
Countess  
 

Countess or Bride

A necklace of bones D eath helps the maid dressing the countess with a necklace made of little bones. This is particularly evident on Hollar's etchings (picture to the right).

Variations: Various forms of the rosette on the long side of the table. Birckmann has placed a face in the rosette and has placed a picture frame and an oval box on the table. This is imitated by Hollar and Deuchar.

Holbein's Imagines Mortis: Countess
Les Simulachres (1538)
Vogtherr 1544: Countess
Vogtherr (1544)
Birckmann 1555: Countess
Birckmann (1555)
Scharffenberg 1578: Countess
Scharffenberg (1578)
Eberhard Kieser imaginibus: Countess
Eberhard Kieser (1617)
Hollar 1651: Countess
Hollar (1651)
Mechel 1780: Countess
Mechel (1780)
Deuchar 1788: Countess
Deuchar (1788)
Hollar coloured 1816: Countess
Hollar coloured (1816)

Old man Noblewoman Up to Holbein's great dance of death