Personificatie van de Nijd - Jaloezie - Afgunst Invidia. NL-HlmNHA 1477 53010752

An aged, muscular woman stands in a coastal landscape, her hair transformed into writhing serpents. She holds a coiled snake in one hand and brings a heart to her mouth with the other, accompanied by a lean, barking dog. The figure is rendered with the exaggerated musculature and dynamic posture characteristic of the Haarlem Mannerist style.

This depiction follows the classical literary tradition of Ovid's Metamorphoses, which describes Envy as a pale, lean figure who eats vipers and whose tongue is 'dripping with venom.' It serves as a moralizing allegory on the self-destructive nature of spite within the context of late 16th-century Dutch humanism.