I like to add this amazing card. The card at the back says Peter Cornelius is the artist. He lived from 1783 to 1867, born in Düßeldorf, died in Berlin. He worked mostly in Berlin, but also in München and even Rome, to study classics, and you can see influences.
The work is a part of the painting Die apokalyptischen Reiter, and Wikipedia tells that this work is by Peter von Cornelius. Here you can see the whole painting, and this also says Von Cornelius. Still, maybe the card is right.
The horsemen, there are 4, we see 3. The back gives us the names of the riders; Krieg, Tod und Teuerung. So, War, Death and Teuerung litterally means inflation, raise in price, but it cant be litteral here, I think it must be white horse, if you look at the scales, the justice scales, judging, judgement, righteousness. Then, the red horse, war .. The swordslinger, ofcourse!!! Next, death.
Still, if we read the bible on this, the book of revelations 6, verses 7 onwards; When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come and see!" I looked and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth., so we can also see the swordslinger as death.
But in this case, Im sure, that rider is War. And next to him, Death. If the card at the back gives the right names. The last horseman, don t have an object, no scale no sword, just like the rider here. The green horse. Im sure it's Death. And you look at the big painting (link above) you see that Death holds the scythe, that we know clearly from Death.
You can see the card a tad bigger if you click it. Enjoy!!
