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Envy
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
In a landscape, an old woman, personification of envy, with long hair and a bad set of teeth, stands. With her left hand she grasps her head, and in her right hand she holds a burning torch. A snake coils around her left arm. Below the image is a four-line Dutch poem.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineAfgunst. 1636 - 1700. Jean de Weert. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
