{"id":25882,"date":"2025-05-02T15:50:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T13:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiquites-bastian.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=25882"},"modified":"2025-05-28T19:10:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T17:10:40","slug":"leo-schnug-death","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/antiquites-bastian.com\/en\/archives-en\/leo-schnug-death\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u00e9o Schnug \u2013 Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ink drawing on paper by L\u00e9o Schnug (1878-1933), towards the end of his career.<\/p>\n<p>In this late-life work, the Alsatian painter depicts an allegorical scene in which Death strides slowly up a slope towards a woman and her child. In the foreground, a man bearing a somber gaze is descending, passing by the grim reaper. A subtle composition play makes the scythe point to the man&#8217;s head. The melancholy of this passage of time-themed scene is amplified by the monochrome ink on paper and the tree hunching in the wind, with its broken branch echoing the scythe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Traduction\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwjgwZ3jzqyMAxVnAvsDHYmfE5gQ3ewLegQICBAV\" aria-label=\"Texte traduit\u00a0: An oil on panel by Eug\u00e8ne Modeste Edmond Lepoittevin (1806-1870) depicting &quot;Little Red Riding Hood,&quot; illustrating the dialogue with the wolf disguised as a grandmother: &quot;Pull the peg, the bobbin will fall.&quot; At the doorstep, she holds the pot of butter, the cake, and her little red riding hood. Finally, she wears a flower crown and a sinister expression. Signed &quot;EP&quot; lower left. Period: 19th century. Dimensions: Height: 38.5 cm Width: 33.5 cm Depth: 6 cm Condition: Good.\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">Period: c. 1920-1930<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Traduction\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwjgwZ3jzqyMAxVnAvsDHYmfE5gQ3ewLegQICBAV\" aria-label=\"Texte traduit\u00a0: An oil on panel by Eug\u00e8ne Modeste Edmond Lepoittevin (1806-1870) depicting &quot;Little Red Riding Hood,&quot; illustrating the dialogue with the wolf disguised as a grandmother: &quot;Pull the peg, the bobbin will fall.&quot; At the doorstep, she holds the pot of butter, the cake, and her little red riding hood. Finally, she wears a flower crown and a sinister expression. Signed &quot;EP&quot; lower left. Period: 19th century. Dimensions: Height: 38.5 cm Width: 33.5 cm Depth: 6 cm Condition: Good.\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">Dimensions:<br \/>\nHeight: 30.5 cm<br \/>\nWidth: 22.5 cm<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Traduction\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwjgwZ3jzqyMAxVnAvsDHYmfE5gQ3ewLegQICBAV\" aria-label=\"Texte traduit\u00a0: An oil on panel by Eug\u00e8ne Modeste Edmond Lepoittevin (1806-1870) depicting &quot;Little Red Riding Hood,&quot; illustrating the dialogue with the wolf disguised as a grandmother: &quot;Pull the peg, the bobbin will fall.&quot; At the doorstep, she holds the pot of butter, the cake, and her little red riding hood. Finally, she wears a flower crown and a sinister expression. Signed &quot;EP&quot; lower left. Period: 19th century. Dimensions: Height: 38.5 cm Width: 33.5 cm Depth: 6 cm Condition: Good.\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">Dimensions with frame:<br \/>\nHeight: 34.5 cm<br \/>\nWidth: 26.5 cm<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Traduction\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwjgwZ3jzqyMAxVnAvsDHYmfE5gQ3ewLegQICBAV\" aria-label=\"Texte traduit\u00a0: An oil on panel by Eug\u00e8ne Modeste Edmond Lepoittevin (1806-1870) depicting &quot;Little Red Riding Hood,&quot; illustrating the dialogue with the wolf disguised as a grandmother: &quot;Pull the peg, the bobbin will fall.&quot; At the doorstep, she holds the pot of butter, the cake, and her little red riding hood. Finally, she wears a flower crown and a sinister expression. Signed &quot;EP&quot; lower left. Period: 19th century. Dimensions: Height: 38.5 cm Width: 33.5 cm Depth: 6 cm Condition: Good.\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">Condition: Good.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ink drawing on paper, L\u00e9o Schnug, circa 1920-1930.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25873,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[113],"product_tag":[2696,162,406,2703,3904,3506,3817,1811,793,857,896],"class_list":{"0":"post-25882","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-archives-en","7":"product_tag-20th-century-en-2","8":"product_tag-alsace-en","9":"product_tag-alsace-1900-en","10":"product_tag-beginning-of-the-20th-century-en-2","11":"product_tag-death","12":"product_tag-historicism","13":"product_tag-ink-drawing","14":"product_tag-leo-schnug-en-2","15":"product_tag-middle-age","16":"product_tag-neogothique-en","17":"product_tag-renaissance-en","19":"first","20":"outofstock","21":"shipping-taxable","22":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiquites-bastian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/25882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiquites-bastian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiquites-bastian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiquites-bastian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiquites-bastian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiquites-bastian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=25882"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiquites-bastian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=25882"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiquites-bastian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=25882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}