Why it matters
A man dozes by a stove while a demon blows into his ear with bellows; a naked woman embodies his dream and temptation. The engraving denounces laziness as the source of all evils.
Did you know?
- It dates from around 1498.
- It is also called The Temptation of the Idler.
- The same idea appears in Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools of 1494.
Based on the French Wikipedia article La Tentation du paresseux (CC BY-SA 4.0).
