Demon Ball detail 2

A poet of great talent and potential, brought low by consumption just as his star was rising. On a dark, delirious, and laudanum-fogged night he made a deal with a demoness: she offered him time to finish his masterpiece, and fame when he was dead, if he'd dance with her at the Demon's Ball.
But the Demon's Ball never ends.

Framed detail from the larger painting, here: bohemianweasel.deviantart.com/…