Beautiful Eel or 'The choice between young and old'. A young woman turns away from a rich old man and a young man and chooses a boy who mockingly points at his contenders. The old man wears a fur hat and sits at a table counting coins. He keeps a money bag open. Probably four protagonists from the play 'The play of the Moor' by G.A. Bredero (from left to right) are depicted: Kackerlack, Mooi Aal, Ritsert and Roemert. Sheet 32 from a sketchbook with 91 sheets, Companionship in seventeenth-century clothing., draughtsman: Cornelis Springer, after: Claes Moeyaert, after: Gabriël Metsu, (rejected attribution), Amsterdam, c. 1846 - c. 1882, paper