The Old Testament patriarch King Solomon was considered the wisest man in history. Yet even he contravenes God’s word (1 Kings 11:2) and is swayed through his love for his many foreign wives and concubines to practice paganism. In Gerbrand van den Eeckhout’s interpretation, two women worship quietly in the background, relegated to a secondary position while serving as the visual explanation for the monarch’s abandonment of God. Unlike many stories comprising the Weibermacht theme, this subject uses love to delve into the social realm of apostasy.