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A man and a woman in elaborate late 16th-century Dutch attire perform a handfasting gesture over a heavy money bag. Standing behind them, a lean, monstrous demon with cloven hooves and a horned hood acts as the matchmaker, blowing a stream of gold coins into the woman's face. The scene serves as a biting satire on marriages of convenience where wealth, rather than virtue, is the primary bond.

The print utilizes the figure of the 'cacodaemon' (evil spirit) to illustrate how material greed allows lower spiritual entities to corrupt human institutions. This reflects a Renaissance moral philosophy, common in the Haarlem Mannerist circle, which viewed the obsession with worldly goods as a form of spiritual bondage orchestrated by demonic influences.