The Old Man and Death (Danse Macabre)

An elderly, bearded man with a furrowed brow and wearing a long, draped robe looks over his shoulder with a worried expression. To his left, a skeletal figure of Death, carrying a long staff or scythe over its shoulder, grasps the man's arm. The background features a simplified, cross-hatched landscape with sparse vegetation and a clouded sky.

This work is part of Hans Holbein the Younger's 'Les Simulachres & Historiees Faces de la Mort' series, which recontextualized the late medieval Danse Macabre tradition through Renaissance humanism and Reformation-era social critique. It illustrates the 'memento mori' motif, emphasizing the inevitability of death regardless of worldly status or age.