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Another design which Rethel executed was "Death the
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pursuing a murderer across a flat stretch of landscape. A slaughtered body lies on the ground, while in front is the assassin speeding away into the darkness, and above an angel of vengeance. The picture, so the story goes, was won in a lottery at
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the Friend." Rethel also executed a powerful series of drawings "The Dance of Death" suggested by the
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