Matthias Stom

(Amersfoort (?) c. 1600 - after 1649 Sicily or northern Italy)

Woman counting coins by candlelight

Canvas, 67.9 x 57.5 cm

This work follows in a long tradition of depictions of men or women counting money. Such scenes often hover between genre and allegory, with the figures sometimes meant to represent Avaritia - avarice or greed - one of the seven deadly sins.