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Death in the Sickroom,
1896
Printed by Auguste Clot, French, 1858–1936
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Drawn from memory, Munch’s lithograph depicts the artist and his family gathered around his fifteen-year-old sister Sophie—seated in a wicker chair, with her back toward us—at the moment of her death from tuberculosis in 1877. The mourners include Munch’s father and aunt, his sisters Inger and Laura, his brother, Andreas, and the artist himself at age fourteen, staring into center space. Deathbed family portraits were not uncommon in middle-class Scandinavian households in the 1890s, when the mortality rate from infectious diseases such as tuberculosis had reached catastrophic proportions in northern Europe.
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1896
Europe, France, Paris
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"Recent acquisitions", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 20, no. 1 (1961): p. 24-27.
, p. 24 - Gustav Schiefler, Verzeichnis der graphischen Werks Edvard Munchs (Oslo: J. W. Cappelen, 1974)., no. 124, p. 101
- Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch: the Complete Graphic Works (New York: harry N. Abrams, in association with the Munch-Musset, Oslo, 2001)., no. 116
