A stooped old woman wears a dark hooded cloak. Her face is gaunt and pale, her mouth slightly open, her eyes greenish. A broom is tied at her side and a long-handled rake rests over her shoulder. Behind her lies a coastal village of turf-roofed wooden houses, some of them on piles by the water, with a dock, a path down the slope, a fjord and jagged snowy mountains. No one else is in sight.
She is Pesta, the personification of the Black Death in Norwegian tales. She went from farm to farm: with the broom everyone died, with the rake someone survived. Kittelsen gives her both. He first gave her form in Svartedauen (1900); this 1904 sheet revisits the figure in color and in a larger format.
TitleShe Covers the Whole Country (Pesta farer landet rundt)
ArtistTheodor Kittelsen
Year of creation1904
Technique/MediumPencil, watercolor, charcoal, and crayon on paper
Original dimensions65 Ć 52 cm
Collection/MuseumNasjonalmuseet, Oslo
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