The Merchant. Scene depicting two rich merchants in a port. The Death chooses one of them who is resisting, trying, in spite of the situation, to take some coins that he was counting at the time. Facsimile of an engraving belonging to the series "The Dance of Death" by Hans Holbein the Younger, in "Les Simulacres de la Mort", 1538. "Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a l'Epoque de la Renaissance" . Paris, 1877.

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