Cupid, Death, and Beyond

How Cupid and Death teamed up in the first place, must be quite some story and, while I am not sure I would want to look back to see that tandem chasing, if they were up the road I might be driven to extra effort just to find out the reason for their ride together.

"Cupid, Death, and Beyond" (1881) by Max Klinger (Theo Stroefer, printer) from the exhibition, Guillermo del Torro, At Home with Monsters, showing now at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art