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Painting of a young man playing flute beside a skeleton reading a newspaper, with a scythe, red banner and guillotine behind.

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Socialism and Cholera, Horace Vernet, Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A young man in a golden tunic plays a flute while a skeletal death figure in a black cloak reads a newspaper over his shoulder, holding a scythe. A red banner, a red guillotine-like frame, and a pile of rubble with an hourglass appear in the composition.

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