Three Virtues (Temperance, Hope, and Fortitude or Justice) and Studies of a Seated Man, by Circle of Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni), ca. 1420
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Three Virtues (Temperance, Hope, and Fortitude or Justice) and Studies of a Seated Man

Circle of Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)

ca. 1420

Medium
Metalpoint, touches of brush and brown wash, heightened with white (partially oxidized in the figure at the lower left), on reddish violet prepared paper. Some lines retraced in pen and brown ink at a later date.
Classification
Drawings
Dimensions
9 13/16 x 7 5/16 in. (24.9 x 18.5 cm)
Culture
Italian, Florence
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection
Credit line
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Rights
Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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