Museu do Prado Madri Espanha
Óleo sobre madeira - 83x97 - 1539
Seated at a table, the two characters count money with greedy
expressions. The moneychanger wears bourgeois clothing, with fur cuffs and
collar and a strange hat with a pendant. The woman wears a red suit and a white
cap, in sixteenth-century Flemish style. The table has several gold and copper
coins, an account book and a scale. A shelf in the background holds a
candlestick and other papers. The composition is derived from a model painted
by Quentin Massys, of which there are various examples. The best known of these
is in the Louvre in Paris. Although the artist repeated this composition many
times, this version from 1539 accentuates certain aspects, such as the tension
created by the accumulation and disorder of the objects in the room. This is a
way of censuring or criticizing the characters´ morally reprehensible activity.
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