Arnold Böcklin
Island of the Dead
188073.7 x 121.9 cm
Oil on panel
Signed lower right, on rock: A B
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Reisinger Fund, 1926
Literature
Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 72
Provenance
Marie Berna, later Maria Anna Gräfin von Oriola, Büdesheim, near Frankfurt, 1880–died 1915
her heirs, Josephine von Buttlar and Marie Sommerhoff (née Leisler), Büdesheim, 1915–24, sold to Fischer
with Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 1924–26, sold to MMA
Other works by Arnold Böcklin
Self-Portrait
1875/76
1875/76
Villa by the sea
1878
1878
In the Sea
1883
1883
The Sanctuary of Hercules
1884
1884
The Holy Grove
1886
1886