The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Curators' Choices: 23 of 27

	Back to September 11 main page
	Back to all Curators' Choices

Island of the Dead, 1880, by Arnold Böcklin. Reisinger Fund, 1926 (26.90)

Painted in 1880, this picture was commissioned by a woman whose husband had recently died. The artist referred to it in his correspondence as A Still Place, A Silent Island, and later, Island of the Graves.

Location: Sculpture corridor, Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture, second floor

Photograph Credits