Ill-Matched Lovers (by Quentin Massys) Tissue Paper

This design features a painting by the Flemish master Quentin Matsys (1466–1530). It shows an older, lecherous man who is eagerly attracted to a younger, beautiful woman, representing the traditional trope that old age can make people foolish. He gazes adoringly at her beauty, and the two are holding each other in an embrace, but the woman has an accomplice dressed in a fool's costume who is stealing his purse: she is tricking him for her own gain. Some art critics have noted that the old man's face was heavily influenced by a grotesque drawing done by Leonardo da Vinci, making the work an interesting combination of Northern European themes with Italian artistry. The painting's origin is usually dated to between 1520 and 1525.