Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca 1525-1569), The Triumph of Death (ca 1562), oil on wood, detail 3.
Museo del Prado, Madrid.

In the middle foreground, a skeleton is cutting a man’s throat, having fleeced him previously. Nearby are two corpses in a shroud, one lying in a coffin, another beneath. To the right, a red-dressed officer draws his sword in an attempt to fend off death’s attendants.