
Death on the Pale Horse (detail): The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. 1796. Oil on canvas. Unframed: 23 3/8 × 50 5/8 ins (59.4 × 128.6 cms). Framed: 36 1/2 × 63 1/8 × 3 1/8 ins (92.7 × 160.3 × 7.9 cms). Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit.
Death on the Pale Horse. 1817. Oil on canvas. 176 x 301 ins (447.0 x 764.5 cms). Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. This version is thought to be the artist’s final major work. West based it on the Book of Revelation 6:8, in which the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse—Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence—ravage […]