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Here are two German pictures showing Death with a beard. Baldung was a student of Duerer, so this isn't very independent evidence. I didn't find very many pictures looking for this, but Death-with-some-flesh is pretty common, though often still hard to score.

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Since all the European drawings of Death that I've seen show death as a skeleton, usually almost entirely covered by a black robe, how did they classify them as male or female?

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