拍品專文
Floris' drawing of Envy is in the Louvre, Paris, C. van de Velde, Frans Floris (1519/20-1570), Leven en Werken, Brussels, 1975, I, no. 53, II, fig. 151. That and the present, previously unknown drawing are part of a series of the Seven Deadly Sins known through the engravings. The prints are attributed to Frans Menton, and are known only from a posthumous edition by Adriaen Huybrechts of 1575, Van de Velde, op. cit., II, P88-94, figs. 241-7, of which P90, fig. 243, was made after the present drawing. They form the counterpart to a series of prints of the Seven Virtues after Floris (Van de Velde P80-87). Van de Velde dates the drawings circa 1565-6.