The author undoubtedly knew the versions by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) and Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) who have contributed to the fame of this subject is ambivalent, at once moralising and that also draws the viewer's gaze on the nakedness of the characters.
These early representations of the nude in the North of the Alps, inspired by the circles of the Humanists of Wittenberg, were intended both to seduce and to warn the viewer.