Luigi Nono, Grandfather of the omonimous, and equally dead, music composer, presented in 1881 in Milano "La morte del pulcino" (Death of the baby chicken, or death of the day-old chicken, if you prefer).
Here in all its glory, click on it to enlarge. Note how 1é among the other 18 baby chickens seem to watch with infinite sadness. Even the chicken looks sad and moved, he :-)
This kind of 'memento mori' pictures are even more direct than "the dolce far niente" of Godward and Alma Tadema.
Try to find this elsewhere on the Web... you won't be able to.
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