Elegantly dressed male and female skeletons arm in arm (vignette for the feast of the dead)
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José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1852–1913). Elegantly dressed male and female skeletons arm in arm (vignette for the feast of the dead) (detail), ca. 1894. Type-metal engraving, 3 1⁄4 × 2 9⁄16 in. (8.2 × 6.5 cm) (sheet). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930 (30.82.20). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.; Thom Browne (American, born 1965). Ensemble (detail), spring/summer 2018. Jacket and dress of black silk tulle overstitched with black cotton thread and embroidered with white synthetic pearls, crystals, glass beads, white synthetic cabochons, and silver metallic thread in the form of a skeleton; socks of black and white silk ribbed knit; shoes of black leather and dark brown wood inlaid with red, white, and blue plastic strips. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Thom Browne, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2020 (2020.267.1a–f )
