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Death and the Mother (Danish: Døden og moderen) is a sculpture created by the Danish sculptor Niels Hansen Jacobsen. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s tale The Story of a Mother it depicts a Grim Reaper figure in a dynamic pose carrying a scythe striding over a mother with a dead child crouching on the ground. The original plaster model is in the holdings of the Danish National Gallery while two bronze castings are located outside St. Peter’s Church in Copenhagen and Vejen Art Museum.
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