Michael Sweerts

The Seven Acts of Mercy - Burying the Dead



Michael Sweerts - The Seven Acts of Mercy - Burying the Dead



Michael Sweerts
The Seven Acts of Mercy - Burying the Dead
ca. 1646-49
74 x 99 cm
Oil on canvas
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut


Exhibitions

2002 Michael Sweerts (1618-1664), Nr. 5g

Iconclass

11V7 Burying the dead, 'mortuus sepellitur' ~ one of the (seven) Acts of Mercy

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Michael Sweerts Bathing Scene
Bathing Scene
ca. 1655

Michael Sweerts Portrait of a Young Man
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Michael Sweerts A Boy Wearing a Turban
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ca. 1655-56

Michael Sweerts The Schoolroom
The Schoolroom
ca. 1650

Michael Sweerts Mars Destroying the Arts
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