The Ploughman (Danse Macabre)

A woodcut print showing a skeletal Death figure, wearing no clothes, holding the handle of a plough while a bearded peasant in rustic clothing, including a tunic, leggings, and a hat, walks alongside guiding it. The scene is set in an open field under a sky with light clouds, with a tree trunk in the foreground on the right and rolling hills in the background. Death is depicted with a grinning, hollow-eyed skull, his bony hands gripping the wooden tool as he leads the man forward, reflecting the theme of universal mortality regardless of social station.

This image is part of Holbein's 'Les Simulachres & Historiees Faces de la Mort' (1538), a seminal series of woodcuts that updated the medieval 'Danse Macabre' tradition by emphasizing the social reality of death during the Reformation era.