Island of the Dead, 1880, Oil on wood, 29 x 48 in. (73.7 x 121.9 cm), Paintings, Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, Basel 1827–1901 San Domenico, Italy), In 1880 Marie Berna, the American-born widow of a German diplomat, visited Böcklin in Florence, where she saw an unfinished first version of this painting (now Kunstmuseum Basel) on his easel. She commissioned the present canvas as a memorial to her husband, requesting the additions of the draped coffin and the shrouded female figure
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