Pencil Study of the Figure of Death for 'Love and Death'

drawing height: 12.6 cm
drawing width: 9 cm
mount height: 52.4 cm
mount height: 41 cm

Pencil Study of the Figure of Death for 'Love and Death'-draped figure shown from the back with an indication of proper right shoulder (outstreched to the right and forwards in the Tate version) and the draped head leaning forward-composition and folds of drapery very similar to the finished oil painting (Tate version); inscribed in the bottom right corner 'Death' and below '1883'; study of the draped figure for the allergorical (symbolist) picture