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Memento Mori: Sickness and Death in European Art
Mourner
Gallery 305 · Etienne Bobillet|Paul Mosselman · ca. 1453 · Met web page
A hooded mourner from the tomb of Jean, duc de Berry, carved in alabaster around 1453. One of only twenty-five surviving figures from an original forty that once surrounded the duke's sarcophagus.
Entrance → Gallery 305
To Mourner
From the Great Hall, walk through galleries 300 and 304 to reach gallery 305, where you'll find this mourner displayed among other medieval sculptures.