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Envy
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About this work
In this print, which comes from a series of fourteen engravings, Envy is shown as an old hag eating a heart, a visual metaphor for the expression "eating your heart out" with resentment. Jacob Matham was Goltzius's stepson and pupil and entered his Haarlem workshop in 1581. A highly prolific engraver, Matham produced prints after artists including Michelangelo, Raphael, Abraham Bloemaert (1564–1651), and especially Goltzius. When Goltzius ceased his activities as a printmaker around 1600, Matham took over the workshop.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineThe Seven Vices: Envy, 1593. Jacob Matham (Dutch, 1571–1631), after Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617). Engraving; sheet: 33.2 x 17.7 cm (13 1/16 x 6 15/16 in.); platemark: 32 x 16.3 cm (12 5/8 x 6 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Louise S. Richards, 1991.251
