Marcel Roux (September 11, 1878 – January 19, 1922) was a French painter and engraver.
A devout Catholic, he often explored the decadence of turn-of-the-century life through images of its suffering. This includes his ''Danse Macabre'' portfolio of 15 etchings from 1904-05 that draws on the tradition of the
dance of death
The ''Danse Macabre'' (; ) (from the French language), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death.
The ''Danse Macabre'' consists of the dead, or a personification of ...
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1878 births
1922 deaths