The Moneylenders
after Quinten Metsys (Louvain 1466 - Antwerp 1530)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1500 - 1599
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
813 x 724 mm (32 x 28½ in)
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 959461
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Moneylenders, after Quinten Metsys (Louvain 1466 - Antwerp 1530). Two moneylenders wearing large soft hats sitting counting money and writing accounts at a table, one wearing a pince-nez. Metsys was a Netherlandish painter, known for his satirical portraits of bankers, tax collectors, money lenders and avaricious merchants.
Provenance
Probably the ‘Picture of the Misers' acquired by Charles Winn from the London dealer and picture restorer, S.Jennings in September 1823, at a cost of £25.
Credit line
Nostell Priory, The St Oswald Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Quinten Metsys (Louvain 1466 - Antwerp 1530) , artist
References
Brockwell 1915 Maurice Walter Brockwell, Catalogue of the Pictures and Other Works of Art in the Collection of Lord St Oswald at Nostell Priory, London 1915, cat. 239