Jan Steen's A Woman at her Toilet, 1663, contains a moralizing message. The viewer takes on the role of voyeur, observing through an archway a young woman on an unmade bed in a state of undress. A lute with a broken string, a skull, and a candle with its flame extinguished carry the warning that yielding to sensuality could lead to ruin. [http://arthistorynewsreport.blogspot.nl/2016/10/at-home-in-holland-vermeer-and-his.html]