The Man with the Moneybag and His Flatterers

Johann Theodor de Bry after Pieter Bruegel the Elder

National Gallery of Art

This print features a large creature with a humanoid upper body and a human face with a headscarf. They are sitting down and leaning forward, with their body facing away from us, towards the left, and their head turned over their shoulder to look towards us with a somber expression. Near the bottom-right corner, small people crawl on their hands and knees on the ground, heading into a square opening in the creature's lower body, between their hips and lower back. The large creature’s arms are on the left, holding a long back with coins spilling out of it on the ground. At the bottom of the print is a line of Latin text. The background is minimal, with low hills and an empty sky decorated with cross-hatching.