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Ill-Matched Couple: Young Man and Old Woman

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Drypoint engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

In this representation of the subject, a favourite for prints in the fifteenth century, the old woman explicitly embodies the deadly sin of 'avaritia' (covetousness). The young man reaches for her money bag which she guards.