Lust for Gold, by Thomas Couture, 1840 - 1879
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Lust for Gold

Also titled De gouddorst

Thomas Couture (1815–1879)

1840 - 1879

Medium
canvas, oil paint (paint)
Classification
painting
Dimensions
depth 12 cm
Museum
Rijksmuseum
Credit line
Gift of M.C., Baroness van Lynden-van Pallandt, The Hague
Rights
Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the Rijksmuseum

About this work

De gouddorst. Jonge vrouwen met ontblote borsten staande bij een tafel waarachter zit een oude man met geld en sieraden. Achter de man staat een grijnzende Mefisto.