Gaston Hoffmann, offers a perfect allegory of this obscure man, "this figure of evil".
In a gradation of red and orange, the artist refers to hell as we imagine it and the hallucinatory worlds of our nightmares.
As in Hell or the Death of the Miser of Jerome Bosch, we find a multitude of scary and comic characters at the same time: a skeleton, a man with a bandaged face, a woman with a pale face, imps...

Two interpretations are possible; Hoffmann's imagination being the most fertile...
The first, that of the Christmas Tale.
Asleep on his accounting table, by candlelight, the miser wakes up suddenly.
Facing him, draped in black, the president of a court, imaginary and real, composed of :
Humans to whom he did not want to give and evil creatures who steal his money (the imps).
The second, more mythological and mystical.
Locked up with his jailers, at the hour of judgment, they come to persecute him, like the young man trying to steal his money; and the devils, on their boat, taking all his money. Condemned to live in this hell.