''The Money Changer and His Wife'' is a 1514

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Quentin Matsys Quentin Matsys ( nl, Quinten Matsijs) (1466–1530) was a Flemish painter in the Early Netherlandish tradition. He was born in Leuven. There is a tradition alleging that he was trained as an ironsmith before becoming a painter. Matsys was activ ...

Painting

A man, who is weighing the jewels and pieces of gold on the table in front of him sits next to his wife who is reading a book of devotion with an illustration of the Virgin and Child. The couple is not dressed as members of nobility, but rather as well-to-do burghers of

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, where the painting was made. At the time, Antwerp had grown with the influx of many southern immigrants fleeing the

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. Among this international community there was a demand for money-changers and money-lenders, as international commerce was increasing in the port city. The same motif was used 25 years later by Matsys' follower, the painter

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. This painting was copied in a painting of the gallery of

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by Willem van Haecht a century later in the 1620s. Van der Geest was an admirer of Matsys' work and owned several of his paintings, including ''The Moneylender and His Wife''. He also commemorated Matsys' hundredth death anniversary with a new plaque in the

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, Fine Arts Magazine Tableau, Summer 1996 The painting is held in the

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