William Michael Harnett, 1879 - Memento Mori,To This Favour - fine art print

Original artwork specifications from The Cleveland Museum of Art (© Copyright - by The Cleveland Museum of Art - www.clevelandart.org)

The Latin term memento mori describes a traditional subject in art that addresses mortality. In Harnett’s example, the extinguished candle, spent hourglass, and skull symbolize death. A quote from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, inscribed on the inside cover of a tattered book, reinforces the theme. It comes from the play’s famed graveyard scene where Hamlet discovers a skull and grimly ponders his beloved Ophelia, ironically unaware that she is already dead. The "paint" in the quote not only refers to Ophelia’s makeup, but also wittily evokes the artifice of Harnett’s picture.

This work of art was made by the male Irish artist William Michael Harnett in 1879. The over 140 year-old original measures the size: Framed: 77,9 x 98,4 x 8,6 cm (30 11/16 x 38 3/4 x 3 3/8 in); Unframed: 61,3 x 81,5 cm (24 1/8 x 32 1/16 in) and was painted with the techinque of oil on canvas. The artpiece has the following text as inscrption: signed lower right: WMHARNETT / 1879 [WMH in monogram].. Today, the artpiece belongs to the collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, which is located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America. This modern art public domain piece of art is supplied with courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art. Creditline of the artwork: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund. Moreover, alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape and has a ratio of 4 : 3, which means that the length is 33% longer than the width. William Michael Harnett was a male painter, whose artistic style can be attributed primarily to Realism. The painter was born in the year 1848 in Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland and passed away at the age of 44 in 1892.

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