Auferstehung

With his allegorical portraits of the deceased, painted for mourning survivors, orchestrated with attributes of death and resurrection, Freudweiler created the new genre of 'consolation pictures' from 1786. Johann August Nahl's (1710-1781) famous tomb from 1751 in the church of Hindelbank in the canton of Bern, created for the parish priest's wife Maria Magdalena Langhans who died in childbirth, was at the time widely distributed in countless repetitions. It can be considered the model for this painting; the motive of the burst gravestone is also found there. Source