[1] It is part of the collection of the Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig, Germany.

[4] The low horizon gives the figures monumentality, the blue sky gives the allegory of transience a meditative expression.

The thoughtful and life-oriented painting is probably the last major work by Hans Baldung, who died the following year.

Characteristic of Baldung is the proximity of the physical conception of female aging to sexuality, sin and death, which is already apparent in the nakedness of the women and the relentless display of the erotic appeal of youth in stark contrast to the physical deterioration of the female body in old age.

[5] More pictures on the topic Age and Death by Hans Baldung: The picture came into the collection of the Museum der bildenden Künste in 1944 from the legacy of the Leipzig banker and art historian Fritz von Harck.