36.00 USD
This is one of several well known "memento moris" in the surreal, metamorphic, or arcimboldesque (after the Italian renaissance painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo), style. Many will have seen later representations of this one, and of another, of a lady at her vanity, in the form of art prints and posters.
The artwork was very probably French, the card's title, "Tete de Mort," or Death-head in English, is also French of course, but the printer logo, "PFB in a diamond frame," was for Paul Fink of Berlin, a photo printing house that was swallowed up by a bigger company, Amag (Albrecht and Meister), in around the early 1910s. This certainly helps us date the card to pre-1914, since there is no Amag logo present.
Very nice condition on this lovely, if a little creepy, "memento mori." Please examine our high res scans for detail.
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