The red heart shape that appears elsewhere in the book’s plates (see VIII – Icarus, 2024.24.8, and VII – The Heart, 2024.24.7) reappears in Pierrot’s Funeral, in which a festooned horse pulls a carriage from the right to the left of the composition. The Pierrot of the plate’s title refers to the famous sad clown character from French pantomime and the commedia dell’arte, a figure who has a face painted white and wears white billowing clothes. The funerary march on display here gestures to the end of a life devoted to art.