The Expulsion from Paradise (Danse Macabre)

A black-and-white woodcut print showing a man in rustic fur garments leaning over a long-handled tool to work the earth. Directly behind him stands a grinning, partially draped skeleton holding the tool alongside him, guiding his labor. In the upper left background, a woman sits on a rise, nursing a swaddled infant. An hourglass is placed on the ground near the woman, signaling the passage of time and mortality. The background features sparse, leafless trees and a rocky, desolate terrain.

Part of the 'Danse Macabre' series, this image links the biblical narrative of the Fall of Man and the subsequent curse of toil to the universal inevitability of death. It reflects the Northern Renaissance preoccupation with memento mori, framing human life and labor as inseparable from mortality.