O Cambista e sua Esposa (The Moneychanger and his Wife) - Marinus van Reymerswaele

O Cambista e sua Esposa (The Moneychanger and his Wife) - Marinus van Reymerswaele
Museu Hermitage São Petersburgo Rússia
Óleo sobre madeira - 76x109

O Cambista e sua Esposa (The Moneychanger and his Wife) - Marinus van Reymerswaele

O Cambista e sua Esposa (The Moneychanger and his Wife) - Marinus van Reymerswaele
Pinacoteca dos Mestres Antigos Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden Alemanha
Óleo sobre madeira - 93x111 - 1541

This scene depicts a couple sitting at a table dressed in anachronistic and fanciful costumes. While he is testing the weight of coins using a balance, she is leafing through the pages of a folio volume. The setting is an interior furnished with utensils associated with financial activities, arranged as in a still life. Investigations of the numerous inscriptions on the painting show that the subject is a tax collector.
Van Reymerswaele was familiar with day-to-day reality in this profession since, after a second period of training, he also worked as a lawyer. Paintings on this theme were very popular and were understood as warnings against vices such as avarice and greed.

Dois Cobradores de Impostos (Two Tax Collectors) - Marinus van Reymerswaele

Dois Cobradores de Impostos (Two Tax Collectors) - Marinus van Reymerswaele
Museu Hermitage São Petersburgo Rússia
Óleo sobre madeira - 84x59

O Escritório do Advogado (The Lawyer’s Office) - Marinus van Reymerswaele

O Escritório do Advogado (The Lawyer’s Office) - Marinus van Reymerswaele
New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans Estados Unidos
Óleo sobre madeira - 102x123 - 1545

A lawyer with his arm and hand raised is seated at the left. His clerk, writing, is in the center, while three other men fill the right side. The one in front empties a bag of money. The criticism of greed was a popular theme in 16th-century Netherlandish painting. Paintings like this one were used to satirize the legal profession which was already being criticized for its avarice. Van Reymerswaele's reputation is based upon this type of satirical genre painting. The documents in the background of this painting refer to an actual lawsuit begun in 1526 but not resolved until 1538 by which time the property in dispute had been destroyed by storms.

O Cambista e sua Esposa (The Moneychanger and his Wife) - Marinus van Reymerswaele

O Cambista e sua Esposa (The Moneychanger and his Wife) - Marinus van Reymerswaele

Mosteiro El Escorial San Lorenzo de El Escorial Espanha
Óleo sobre madeira - 1538

O Cambista e sua Esposa (The Moneychanger and his Wife) - Marinus van Reymerswaele

O Cambista e sua Esposa (The Moneychanger and his Wife) - Marinus van Reymerswaele
Museu Nacional do Bargello Florença Itália
Óleo sobre madeira - 84x114 - 1540

O Mercador e sua Esposa (The Merchant and his Wife) - Marinus van Reymerswaele

O Mercador e sua Esposa (The Merchant and his Wife) - Marinus van Reymerswaele
SMK Statens Museum For Kunst Copenhague Dinamarca
Óleo sobre madeira - 86x115 - 1540

Largo do Arouche, 1951, São Paulo, Brasil

Largo do Arouche, 1951, São Paulo, Brasil
São Paulo - SP
Fotografia

Fazenda de Café Santa Maria, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brasil - Theodor Preising

Fazenda de Café Santa Maria, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brasil - Theodor Preising
Ribeirão Preto - SP
Fotografia 

Casa Alemã, Rua General Osório, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brasil

Casa Alemã, Rua General Osório, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brasil
Ribeirão Preto - SP
Fotografia - Cartão Postal