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Death and the Miser by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480
National Gallery of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
This was originally the side panel of a bigger triptych — the centre piece is long gone, so nobody's totally sure what completed the scene.
Erisava: Death's literally at the door and he's still reaching for the money bag.
Still Life with Skull (Nature morte au crâne) by Paul Cézanne, 1897
Barnes Foundation · wikidata.org
Public domain
A skull sitting in with the fruit was an old convention — the reminder that you and the pears are both on the clock. He reportedly kept a couple of them in his studio and came back to painting them near the end of his life.
Erisava: That skull's the same yellow as the fruit. Does that make it less grim, or more?