The Hour of Death. The sinner, at the point of death, with his sins staring him in the face, turns away from then to listen, but too late, to the advice of his good angel. His conscience, black by his faults, reminds him of the whole number of them. Remorse, like a serpent, devours his heart. Suspended in the midst of hell, a monster spewing flames and waiting to seize him, and God who with his right hand threatens with his righteousness and with his left hand testifies his desire to show mercy. Engraving after an allegorical miniature at the beginning of the "Service for the Dead" in a "Liber Horarum", 15th-century manuscript. Sciences & Lettres au Moyen Age et a lepoque de la Renaissance. Paris, 1877.