This presentation shows works of art portraying dead women and the association between women and death in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

1. Woman and/as Death

2. Death of the Beautiful Woman

3. Ophelia
John Everett Millais, 1852

4. Ophelia in the Thistles
Georges Clairin, 1890s

5. Tamara Lying in State
Mikhail Vrubel, 1891

6. The Drowned Girl
Jakub Schikaneder, 1895

7. Spring Evening
Jan Preisler, 1898

8. Dead Mother
Max Klinger, 1898

9. Dead Mother and Child
Edvard Munch, 1899

10. Ophelia
Paul Albert Steck, c. 1900

11. The Girl and Death: An Old Song
August Brömse, 1902

12. The Dream
Ferdinand Hodler, 1903

13. Dead Girl
Jakub Schikaneder, 1910

14. Advertisement for Film Based on
Przybyszewski’s Abyss, 1910

15. The Cup of Death
Elihu Vedder, 1895/1911

16. Woman as Death

17. Dancing Death
Félicien Rops, 1865

18. Orpheus
Gustave Moreau, 1865

19. Proserpine
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874

20. Woman: Three Stages
Edvard Munch, 1894

21. The Death of the Gravedigger
Carlos Schwabe, 1895

22. Thanatos
Jacek Malczewski, 1898

23. Madonna
Edvard Munch, 1902

24. The Hostile Powers
Gustav Klimt, 1902

25. Hope I
Gustav Klimt, 1903

26. Six-Winged Seraph (Azrael, Angel of Death)
Mikhail Vrubel, 1904

27. Pregnant Woman and Death
Egon Schiele, 1911

28. Dead Mother II
Egon Schiele, 1911

29. Death and Life
Gustav Klimt, 1916

30. Sexuality and Death

31. Lady Death, or Mors sifilitica
Félicien Rops, 1866

32. The Apparition
Gustave Moreau, 1876

33. Brutishness
Alfred Kubin, 1885

34. Tristan and Isolde
Jean Delville, 1887

35. The Wayfarer
Gustave Moreau, 1887

36. The Idol of Perversity
Jean Delville, 1891

37. Sensuality
Franz von Stuck, 1891

38. Sin
Franz von Stuck, 1893

39. Dancer’s Reward
Aubrey Beardsley, 1893

40. The Kiss
Aubrey Beardsley, 1893

41. Death and the Maiden
Edvard Munch, 1893

42. Death and Sensuality
Georges Lacombe, 1893

43. The Sea-Maidens
Herbert Draper, 1894

44. Vampire
Edvard Munch, 1894

45. The Kiss of the Sphinx
Franz von Stuck, 1895

46. Sphinx
Franz von Stuck, 1895

47. Art, The Sphinx, or The Caresses
Fernand Khnopff, 1896

48. Agony (Tristan and Isolde)
George Minne, 1896

49. The Kiss
Edvard Munch, 1897

50. The Confluence of Souls
Max Švabinský, c. 1897

51. The Alcoholic’s Dream
František Kupka, after 1900

52. The Road to Hell
Alfred Kubin, 1900

53. Earth, Mother of Us All
Alfred Kubin, 1900-01

54. The Death Plunge
Alfred Kubin, c. 1902

55. Human Fate
Alfred Kubin, 1903

56. Femme Fatale
Kees Van Dongen, 1905