# Allegorical Figure of a Woman with a Club (Fortitude?)

- By: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice, 1696–1770)
- Date: c. 1740 - 1750
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: grisaille
- Dimensions: height 81 cm x width 65 cm
- Credit line: J.W.E. vom Rath Bequest, Amsterdam
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-3437--cc1b36e00b6171a4a0b1bb0d7fce3328)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/QWrBo/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Tiepolo was the leading decorative painter of the 18th century, whose work was admired and commissioned throughout Europe. This oval canvas and its companion –two paintings of a series of four –were undoubtedly part of a large decorative programme in a formal room of a Venetian palace (palazzo). The four oval canvasses were meant to be hung high up, so that the gold ground would reflect the candlelight.