Here is a mixture of gallantry and religion. The nun has admitted her lover into her apartment. She is kneeling before an altar; and hesitates whether to persist in her devotions or listen to the amorous music of the young man; who; seated on a bed; touches a lute. Death extinguishes the candles on the altar; by which the designer probably intimates the punishment of unlawful love. Hand-coloured engraving by Chretien de Mechel from Hans Holbein's 鈥楾he Triumph of Death;' based on original drawings by Peter Paul Rubens; 1860.