# Elegant Couple with an Old Maid in an Exterior [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [JANNECK, Franz Christoph]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on copper, 28 x 20 cm ## Commentary This painting has a companion piece of the same size and same subject. One is set in an interior, the other in an exterior. In both paintings money and riches \(the pearl necklace\) appear to be used as a means of payment or exchange between the man and the woman, with the old maid, or madame, playing the intermediary. Janneck's use of copper was influenced by the works on copper by Jan Brueghel the Younger and Jan van Kessel. ## Related artworks - [A Palace Garden with Elegant Figures]() - [An Agent Collecting Taxes from a Hunter and a Farmer's Wife]() - [An Elegant Company]() - [An Elegant Company]() - [An Elegant Company]() - [Betrothal of the Virgin]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Elegant Company in a Landscape]() - [Elegant Company in a Landscape]() - [Elegant Company in an Interior]() - [Elegant Company Playing Cards]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()