Beware of Luxury (“In Weelde Siet Toe”)

Beware of Luxury (in Dutch, In weelde siet toe) also known as Die verkehrte Welt (The Upside-Down World), is a 1663 oil painting by the Dutch painter Jan Steen, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

The painting depicts a disorderly household given over to licentious or improper behavior. The rowdy merrymakers are arranged in an inverted triangle formation. At its center, a young woman—modeled by Steen's wife, Margriet van Goyen—flirts with the man of the house, smiling flirtatiously at the viewer.

Jan Steen's picture is a comedic distortion of a Dutch family home, and it serves as a warning to viewers of the foolishness and repercussions of living in disorder. As a genre painter who specialized in satirical scenes, Steen painted many works with similar themes, including As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young and The Effects of Intemperance.

摘自英文维基百科「Beware of Luxury」（CC BY-SA 4.0），暂时没有中文条目。