The lady and the pensive skeleton
Artista: José Guadalupe Posada
Siglo XIX · México
Colección: José Guadalupe Posada
This work, a woodcut, depicts a woman in an ornate dress looking at a skeleton leaning on a table. On the table, an owl and an hourglass suggest the fleeting nature of time and the inevitability of death.
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