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![Night [Nacht], plate 1 from Vom Tode, Erster Teil (On Death, Part 1)](https://art.famsf.org/sites/default/files/styles/artwork_view/public/artwork/klinger/3329201303440020.jpg?itok=zmR2WSeB)
Night [Nacht], plate 1 from Vom Tode, Erster Teil (On Death, Part 1)
Artist:
Date:
1889
Location:
Not on display
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Media:
Etching, Aquatint, And Drypoint
Dimensions:
31.3 x 31.7 cm (image)
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Continent:
Europe
Accession Number:
1986.1.193.1
Acquisition Date:
1986-12-01
Credit Line:
Gift of John Gutmann in memory of Walter Heil
Exhibition History:
Waking Dreams: Max Klinger and the Symbolist Print
Legion of Honor, Gallery 1: 02/28/09 - 09/06/09
Man wearing suit sits looking at a flower and thinking to himself. Behind him is a stone wall and the sea.
A brooding, bearded man contemplates a lily and a butterfly by moonlight in a garden by the sea.