Gierigheid (Avaritia)

A gaunt woman stands within a shadowed classical niche, looking over her shoulder with a sharp, defensive expression. She holds a large vessel under one arm and clutches weighted purses in her other hand, while two heraldic shields depicting a toad and a griffin flank her in the upper corners. The intricate cross-hatching emphasizes the texture of her heavy robes and the depth of the alcove.

As part of a series on the Seven Deadly Sins, this allegory reflects the moral and psychological entrapment of material obsession common in Northern Renaissance thought. In the Neoplatonic and Hermetic frameworks influential in Haarlem, such vices were seen as the 'material garments' that weighed down the soul, preventing its ascent to the divine.