[The dance of death
A 1680 Paris edition of the Dance of Death, published by N. Pitau near the Mathurins and drawing on Holbein's designs, with etchings by Wenceslaus Hollar and Abraham van Diepenbeeck. Each plate sets a skeleton beside a living figure of rank inside an architectural frame of columns, figures and skulls. The scenes show Death confronting nobles, rulers and officials mid-gesture, with a designer able to borrow the stacked framing, the small skeletal interventions and the clear hierarchy of social types.
