De L'Envieux; Et De L'Avare · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: De L'Envieux; Et De L'Avare
Subject: men; gods
Period: 1650-1700;
Geographic: Brussels; Belgium; Ancient Greece
Description: Two neighbors came before Jupiter and prayed for him to grant their desires. One was full of Greed, and the other was full of envy. So, to punish them both, Jupiter Granted that each can have whatever he wished for himself, but only on condition that his neighbour had twice as much. The greedy man prayed to have a room full of gold, but all his joy was turned to grief when he found that his neighbor had two rooms full of gold. The envious man, who could not bear to think of his neighbor having more joy than himself, prayed that one of his eyes be put out, by which means his neighbor would have both put out.
Image Creator: Jacobus Harrewijn (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Engravings
Identifier: mta:27335
Language: fre
Source Name: Esope en Belle Humeur
Parent Collection: F - Esope en belle humeur. Engravings by Anonymous. (1700)
Image: mta_27335_OBJ.jpg