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The Court of Death, (painting). Artist:  Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860, painter. Title:  The Court of Death, (painting). Dates:  1819-1820. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  138 x 281 in. (351 x 714 cm) Description:  Scene of twenty-two figures; at center is the cloaked figure of Death and the fallen figure of a man wearing white drapery. The other figures include Pleasure, Remorse Intemperance, Frenzy, Suicide, Gout, Dropsy, Apoplexy, Hypochondria, Fever, and Consumption at left. At right are Want, Dread, Desolation, and a warrior stepping over a mother a child. Gesturing toward the fallen body is Old Age supported by Virtue. Subject:  Literature -- Porteus -- Death Allegory -- Death Figure group Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48202 Accession Number: 85.3 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Cotton, G. Q., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1858. Coale, S. A., St. Louis, Missouri 1885. Gift of Scripps, George H., Detroit, Michigan 1885. Remarks:  Peale was inspired for this painting by the poem "Death" by Beilby Porteus. References:  "American paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; volume 1: Works by artists born by 1816," New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1991, no. 70. Evans, Dorinda, "Benjamin West and his American students," Washington, D.C.: Published for the National Portrait Gallery by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980. "Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965," Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1965. Illustration:  Image on file. Antiques (Sept. 1970). "American paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; volume 1: Works by artists born by 1816," New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1991, pg. 161. Evans, Dorinda, "Benjamin West and his American students," Washington, D.C.: Published for the National Portrait Gallery by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980, p. 185. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 24150335   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 24150335 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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