That work is part of a series on this theme by Hans Holbein.
One example of this allegorical work shows a fat abbot exhorting God to spare him from the title figure, who wears a bishop's mitre and, carrying a bishop's staff in one hand, drags the abbot by his cloak with the other. That work is part of a series on this theme by Hans Holbein. Another example of this allegory shows three of the title figures with their hands joined in celebration while a fourth plays an oboe. Below them, a shroud is torn away from a supine one of the title figures, around whom snakes writhe. The earliest known example of this allegory was contained in the Cemetery of the Church of the Holy Innocents in Paris. In that work, which is lost, the title figure led the pope, the emperor, the nobleman, the laborer, and the small child away. For ten points, name this allegory common in the early Renaissance, in which the inevitability of the title figure's arrival is typically depicted as applying to all walks of life.
One example of this allegorical work shows a fat abbot exhorting God to spare him from the title figure, who wears a bishop's mitre and, carrying a bishop's staff in one hand, drags the abbot by his cloak with the other.
{Dance} of {Death} (accept {Danse Macabre}, {Danse} de la {Mort}, {Totentanz}, etc.)