A man and a woman are counting their money with Death watching, armed with hourglass and scythe. Mezzotint by I. Meheux.

  • Meheux, Jacques.
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A man and a woman are counting their money with Death watching, armed with hourglass and scythe. Mezzotint by I. Meheux. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A Paris (rue St. Jacques aux deux Pilliers d'Or.) : chez Audran

Physical description

1 print : mezzotint ; image 22.2 x 19.5 cm

Lettering

Fol en cette nuict on te redemande ton ame; et les choses que tu as, à qui seront-elles? Ainsi est celuy qui fait grand amas de bien pour soy, et n'est point riche en Dieu. Luc. 12. Stulte hac nocte animam tuam repetunt a te et haec quæ parasti cujus erunt: Lucæ 12. C. Sic est qui sibi thesaurizat et non est in Deum dives Ibidem. I. Meheux sculp.

References note

The miserly couple are derived from a painting by David Teniers II (London, National Gallery no. NG155), but the motifs of mortality are not present in that painting

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Wellcome Collection 34902i

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