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Engraving of a horned devil with goat legs striding across a tiled floor toward a canopy bed where a woman sits up, in a furnished bedroom.

The Whores' Devil (De hoeren duivel), 1682 engraving

An etched engraving shows a horned devil with goat legs and hooves striding across a checkered floor toward a canopy bed in a furnished bedchamber. A woman sits up in the bed, drapes frame the window, and a chest stands at right beneath a page number in the upper corner.

Artist
Johannes Jacobsz van den Aveele
Date
1682
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
2196 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1682.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam